Quotes: Thinking

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

As an improviser I’m now pretty comfortable with trios, so I’m thinking of working up to quartets.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

He’s thinking more with his heart than with his brain.

Yes – it’s the same in any other work – the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.