Arthur Guiterman Quotes

To think is not enough, you must think of something.

Read less, study less, but think more

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

I agree that it's important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

I recommend that you try a little mental floss.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest.

A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

I think better when I'm not sober

Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.