Albert Bandura Quotes

I think it's important for people like me to evaluate and reevaluate.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I try not to be overly analytical.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

Your life is a reflection of how you think

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

I've done and said a lot of things when I was younger that I don't know if I even understood what I was doing or why I was doing it. There's a lot of compassion in understanding what people go through and even in trying to understand why a person would act the way they do. I was a very reactive person, and I did things that were just really bizarre; I don't think people understood it at all.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.