If you go to thinking, take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Invert, always invert.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
I think, therefore I am.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
I stopped thinking the way other people think a long time ago. You gotta think like you think.
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form.
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
We are too narrow-minded a species to consider the possibility of events that deviate from our mental models of the world.
In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.
Bad strategy is not simply the absence of good strategy. It grows out of specific misconceptions and leadership dysfunctions.
Hindsight bias is the tendency, after an event, to see the event as having been predictable.
Breadth of training predicts breadth of transfer. That is, the more contexts in which something is learned, the more the learner creates abstract models.
Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.
We listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard.
The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.
Invert, always invert: Turn a situation or problem upside down. Look at it backward.
Madness is rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, nations, and ages, it is the rule.
Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.
The least obvious part of the system, its function or purpose, is often the most crucial determinant of the system's behavior.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
