Quotes about Thinking

Whenever there was a dilemma, I just left it in abeyance and—without really consciously dealing with it intensively—let it grow toward the clarity of a decision. But this clarity is not so much intellectual as it is instinctive. The decision is made; whether one can adequately justify it retrospectively is another question. "Thus" it happened that I went. Bonhoeffer was always thinking about thinking.

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

This is a timely warning for those who live at the end of the age when digital devices provide information so quickly that thinking is no longer needed.

People's desire and ability to think — to process, gather, and study information to ensure they arrive at an accurate conclusion — has been greatly diminished.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

Creative thinking is not stimulated by vicarious issues but by personal problems.

The hysteria of suspicion has made us unreliable to ourselves, trusting neither our aspirations nor our convictions. Suspiciousness, not skepticism, is the beginning of our thinking.

For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.

The fact that the fool is often stubborn must not mislead us into thinking that he is independent.

Where the beginning begins, there our thinking stops; there it comes to an end.

The wasted time we are ashamed of, the temptations we succumb to, the weakness and discouragement in our work, the disorder and lack of discipline in our thinking and in our dealings with other people—all these very frequently have their cause in our neglect of morning prayer.