Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. They are paid in proportion to the supply and demand of them

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

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

Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.

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

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

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

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual. Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.