Think/ing Quotes

I was a free thinker before I knew how to think.

I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

I can tolerate a mind that’s DUMB, but not one that’s just plain NUMB.

Computers work, people think.

Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas – of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

Brain: An apparatus with which we think that we think.

Be careful what you think!

As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Action is the sequel to thought, not its precursor.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

The seven multiple intelligences: 1. Verbal – the ability to use words 2. Visual – the ability to see things in your mind 3. Physical – the ability to use your body well 4. Musical – the ability to understand and use music 5. Mathematical & Logical – the ability to apply logic to systems and numbers 6. Introspective – the ability to understand thoughts and feelings in yourself 7. Interpersonal – the ability to relate well to others

The real problem is that PERCEPTION is all there is. There is no reality as such. There is only perceived reality, the way each of us chooses to perceive a communication, the value of a service, the value of a particular product feature, the quality of a product. The REAL is what we PERCEIVE.

The number of synapses in the brain increase sharply from birth to about 2 years of age. At 2 the child possesses two times the number of synapses of the average adult. This could be compared to the sculptor who starts off with a large block of clay (more than needed) and then gradually removes clay that is not needed. So the mind of the child is equipped at age two with a very large potential. Latent skills, abilities and talents are ready and waiting to be developed. If not used, they will atrophy with age and will be more difficult to learn and develop later. This emphasizes the need to surround the child with a rich learning environment at an early age.

To be considered an “EXPERT”, one needs a large amount of knowledge of only a relatively few variety. In contrast, an ordinary person’s “common sense” involves a much larger variety of different types of knowledge – and this requires more complicated management systems. It is easier to acquire specialized knowledge than common sense knowledge.

It has been the persuasion of an immense majority of human beings that sensibility and thought (as distinguished from matter) are, in their own nature, less susceptible of division and decay, and that, when the body is resolved into its elements, the principle which animated it will remain perpetual and unchanged. However, it is probable that what we call thought is not an actual being, but no more than the relation between certain parts of that infinitely varied mass, of which the rest of the universe is composed, and which ceases to exist as soon as those parts change their position with respect to each other.

THE WHOLE DENSA THING!