Thinking Process Quotes

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.

My brain's always working, and gears are turning 24/7. So I was trying to think of solutions.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

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

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.

I like the cerebral process.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has, and I hope that REBT teaches them how to do it.

Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Thinking is movement confined to the brain

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

How does anybody ever think of anything?

To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before

No scientist thinks in formulae.

The mind is just like a crowd; thoughts are the individuals. And because thoughts are there continuously you think the process is substantial. Drop each individual thought and finally nothing is left. There is no mind as such, only thinking.

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

I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.

Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution