Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
People calculate too much and think too little.
Saying that I've THOUGHT about it doesn't mean that I'm DOING it.
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
I think perception is important.
I usually think in terms of music.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.
The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.
Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.
...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.
I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.
I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.
What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.
For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.
There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.
