“Help conquer the IQ shortage: worry less and think more.” — Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers
Tag: thinking
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“I write — and talk — in order to find out what I think.” — Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh
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“We listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard.” — Adam Grant, Think Again
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“It is frequently insufficient to identify the motives that guide our conduct, or that shape our attitudes and our thinking, just by observing vaguely that there are various things we want. That often leaves out too much. In numerous contexts, it is both more precise and more fully explanatory to say that there is something we care about.” — Harry Frankfurt, The Reasons of Love
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“Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.” — Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
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“Thinking doesn’t guarantee that we won’t make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.” — Leslie Lamport, “Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses,” Wired (2013-01-25)
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“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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“Few men think; yet all have opinions.” — George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
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“I’ve got this real moron thing I do, it’s called ‘thinking.’” — George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty
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“Bullshitting has its obvious incentives and pleasures: you get all the kudos of saying interesting and important things without any of the work of actually thinking interesting and important things.” — David Egan, Calling Bullshit, The Point
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