Joseph Murray Quotes

My brain's always working, and gears are turning 24/7. So I was trying to think of solutions.

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.

I want to get people thinking.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.

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

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

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.

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

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.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

Think your own thoughts.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.