quotations about thinking
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 is but an idle waste of thought,
And naught is everything, and everything is naught.
HORACE & JAMES SMITH
Rejected Addresses
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
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK
"Slavoj Zizek: I am not the world's hippest philosopher!", Salon, December 29, 2012
Thinking isn't to agree or disagree--that's voting.
ROBERT FROST
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
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
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
CONFUCIUS
The Analects