quotations about thinking
Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do.
JANE TAYLOR
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Essays in Rhyme
Thinking nurseth thinking.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney
Try thinking more if just for your own sake
THE BEATLES
"Think for Yourself", Rubber Soul
Thinking makes the great distinction between the mind of the philosopher and that of the fool.
REV. E. THOMPSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Many a man who thinks he is thinking, is merely digesting yesterday's newspaper.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Man has been born for two things--thinking and acting; to think is to live.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
BIBLE
Proverbs 23:7
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Aids to Reflection
Forty years ago, you didn't need advanced critical thinking skills to earn a good living on an assembly line. But in today's knowledge-based economy, critical thinking skills are at a premium: according to a survey of chief human resources and strategy officers by the World Economic Forum, by 2020, complex problem solving and critical thinking will be the top two skills workers need.
TERRI WILLIAMS
"Study: Nearly Half of Millennials Get an 'F' In Critical Thinking", GoodCall, May 30, 2017
Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects of Humanity
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
HARLAN ELLISON
Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed
What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking -- there's the real danger.
FRANK HERBERT
God Emperor of Dune
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Strength to Love
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
CONFUCIUS
The Analects
Thinking is but an idle waste of thought,
And naught is everything, and everything is naught.
HORACE & JAMES SMITH
Rejected Addresses
We have a default tendency to make fast thinking snap judgments that oversimplify analyses of complex situations. Shortcuts or "heuristics" allow for quick decisions, but we tend to overuse them.
STUART R. LEVINE
"Improve decisions through slower thinking", CU Insight, May 31, 2017
Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK
"Slavoj Zizek: I am not the world's hippest philosopher!", Salon, December 29, 2012
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
letter to his publisher, Ben Huebsch, New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Asimov on Science Fiction