Philip Sidney Quotes

Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

Much has been written about the life of the mind.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

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

Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.

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

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there is no thought, there will be no work. Fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.