All Quotes By Tag: Thinking

“I could not think without writing.”

“In order to get a holistic explanation, anthropology often has to upend common sense and question what gets taken for granted. Anthropology prompts us to reconsider not only what we think we know – what it means to be affluent, why blood matters, what constitutes reason – but also the terms by which we know it.”

“You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.”

“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”

“Modest doubt is call’d the beacon of the wise.”

“Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind.”

“There are nights that ask rhetorical questions. There are nights that demand immediate answers. And then, there are nights, where you forget your own name… There are nights where you lose conscience of where your body ends or begins….Those are my favorite.”

“I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”

“Writing 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.”

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where’s the harm? September 11th changed all that.”

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)”

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

“You Can Create The Life Your Dream… Or You Can Just Watch Other People Live Their Dream. Think Smart And Decide Wisely… Your Success Depends On You!”

“[…] I try not to think with my gut. If I’m serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it’s okay to reserve judgement until the evidence is in.”