Richard M. Weaver Quotes

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through.

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.

Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.

Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented as an argument is really a rationalization. This can undermine our confidence in the original method or practice only by giving us reasons to believe something else, so that finally we have to think about the arguments to make up our minds.

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment