Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. —Walter Lippmann More about this quote Tags: thinking originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. —Jerry Seinfeld More about this quote Tags: books thinking culture bookstores Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. —Terry Pratchett More about this quote Tags: thought thinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. —Alfred Korzybski More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge certainty doubt thinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: opinion pain thinking laziness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: thinking problem solution challenge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. —Christopher Morley More about this quote Tags: action doing mind reading thinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But life doesn't always turn out the way you think it will, and that can be rather wonderful. —Victoria Connelly in At Home with Mr. Darcy More about this quote Tags: life planning thinking plans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master. —David Foster Wallace More about this quote Tags: learning choice teaching thinking control consciousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Envy is a con man, a tugger at your sleeve, a knocker at your door. Let me in for just a moment, it says, for just one moment of your time. . . . The antidote to envy is one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself. It drives the spooks away. —Bonita Freedman More about this quote Tags: doing work thinking envy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: politics thinking conservative Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. —Milton Berle More about this quote Tags: politics USA thinking congress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. —John Ruskin More about this quote Tags: action doing belief thinking consequences Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. —Philip K. Dick More about this quote Tags: thinking night Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Tags: thought thinking brain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email