Lloyd Alexander Quotes

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

Thought makes everything fit for use.

When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.

It hurts to imagine stuff. It can give you a headache. Probably doesn't hurt physically, but it hurts mentally. But the more that you can do it, the more you're able to get out of it. Everybody has that capacity, but I don't think everyone develops it.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.