Thomas Sydenham Quotes

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot.

I just was raised always to question and be as informed as I can be.

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

Italians think with their heads.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.

I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.

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.

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.