Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Posing good questions is harder than it might seem... It's hard because asking good questions requires you to see past the easy answers and to focus instead on the difficult, the tricky, the mysterious, the awkward, and sometimes the painful. ... Great leaders don't have all the answers, but they know how to ask the right questions - questions that force others and themselves to move past old and tired answers, questions that open up possibilities that, before the question, went unseen.

We keep saying we have no other course; what we should be saying is we are not bright enough to see any other course.

When we are accustomed to use bad reasons for proving natural effects, we are not willing to receive good reasons when they are discovered

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

I have a very linear mind.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions, into the picture of the world which he regards as modern or advanced.