Cognitive Clarity Quotes

While driving to work, I'll choose to think about a particular subject rather than just have random thought streams landing on one subject or another. For example, I might think about the structure of an opinion. Or I might think about the first sentence of an opinion, refining it.

Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It forces you to work the thing through. Nothing comes to us out of the blue, very easily.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

you don't know what you think unless you say it.

Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.

Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

Language is the light of the mind

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

I recommend that you try a little mental floss.

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.

You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.

A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

When you can get the game to slow down for you, you can play a lot faster.

To be honest, I feel like I think too much. So I like working out because it makes me kind of relax.

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.