Robert Southwell Quotes

Thought makes everything fit for use.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

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.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't it better to walk with your head than to think with your feet, as it happens so frequently?

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.