What are wits for unless a man uses them?
Ellis PetersTags: intelligence thinking wits
I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.
Jane AustenTags: life thinking society people
Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.
Emlyn ChandTags: thinking metaphors young-adult open-heart ya farsighted emlyn-chand
There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.
Orrin WoodwardTags: thinking mental-fitness
Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.
Orrin WoodwardTags: thinking mental-fitness
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble
with women, too."
["Existence" (1975)]
Tags: imagination thinking mind limitations
We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)
Nicholas CarrBecause, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.
John CleeseTags: thinking creativity creative-process importance ease triviality
حُكمك على الشخص يكون من أسئلته وليس أجوبته
VoltaireTags: thinking questions man answers
Something else emerges from this discussion about us as human individuals: we're not fixed, stable intellects riding along peering at the world through the lenses of our eyes like the pilots of people-shaped spacecraft. We are affected constantly by what's going on around us. Whether our flexibility is based in neuroplasticity or in less dramatic aspects of the brain, we have to start acknowledging that we are mutable, persuadable and vulnerable to clever distortions, and that very often what we want to be is a matter of constant effort rather than attaining a given state and then forgetting about it. Being human isn't like hanging your hat on a hook and leaving it there, it's like walking in a high wind: you have to keep paying attention. You have to be engaged with the world.
Nick HarkawayTags: life thinking perspective humanity change human culture
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