I could not think without writing.
Jean PiagetWriting is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Maybe I wanted to find more rigorous ways of thinking. We’re talking now about the earliest writing I did and about the power of language to counteract the wallow of late adolescence, to define things, define muddled experience in economical ways. Let’s not forget that writing is convenient. It requires the simplest tools. A young writer sees that with words and sentences on a piece of paper that costs less than a penny he can place himself more clearly in the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.
Don DeLilloTag: thinking writing language processing
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
ConfuciusTag: thinking education learning thought reflection pedagogy
Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity.
Tag: art thinking mind paranoia clarity
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John LockeTag: reading thinking knowledge
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran LebowitzTag: wisdom reading books thinking reader advice-for-daily-living speaking
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl SaganMy dad said to me a few years ago: "There's no harm in thinking." We were talking about Crazy Uncle Albert and whether it was right to use your brain to build weapons.
He said, "You can't expect people not to think. Not to know things just because they COULD be bad."
I said, "Yeah, but then they built it and a hundred thousand people died."
My dad laughed and said there were a lot of steps between the thinking and the doing.
Which I know, duh. All I was saying is that when you think of doing something, you don't always know the consequences. For a while people THOUGHT about building the bomb, but nothing happened. In the end it was a lot of different people doing a lot of different things, most of which had nothing to do with the bomb, that did make it happen.
I think about that sometimes. Who was the person who had the first thought, the one that started it all?
And after they had the thought, what was the first thing they did?
I know my uncle never thought, Hey, all this great science- one day I'll use it to kill a whole bunch of people. You just look at his picture; he's not that kind of person.
And yet, I guess in a way he sort of is.
Tag: thinking albert-einstein head-games judith-ellis mariah-fredericks
And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl...there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go...'...if it hadn't been for his head...
Bill CosbyTag: humor thinking brother toilet
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Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
Albert Szent-GyörgyiTag: science thinking creativity discovery nobel-laureate
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