Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Man is an imagining being.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

I like the cerebral process.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

To be and to think are one and the same for us.

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.

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.

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

You should employ your little grey cells.

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

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.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.