Robert M. Hutchins Quotes

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

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

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

I think I was always inspired by seeing a problem, and finding a solution.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

I'm a problem-solver.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

In business, you try to solve problems.