Thomas Traherne Quotes

Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.

It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

It is not merely that Johnny can't read, or even that Johnny can't think. Johnny doesn't know what thinking is, because thinking is so often confused with feeling. … The phrase ‘I feel’ is often used by American students to introduce a conclusion, rather than say ‘I think,’ or ‘I know,’ much less ‘I conclude.’ Unfortunately, ‘I feel’ is often the most accurate term…

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

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.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

... common sense is very rare.

My view is, the most important thing as prime minister is trying to make the right judgments. In order to make good judgments, you need good advice; you need good principles, and you need a clear head, and you need to have a sense of equilibrium.

It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults.

You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions

He that never thinks can never be wise.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

With thought, all problems can be resolved.