We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.
Writing is thinking in slow motion.
There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not - in his mind - undo the facts. Abstractness is the very life of thought, the token of its authenticity.
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.
I write to discover what I think.
If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.
Modern science's defense against self-delusion relies upon a spirit of open and critical inquiry. This, though hardly infallible, ostensibly uncovers errors and thereby proceeds towards objective truth
What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person
Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.
To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.
Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.
... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.
Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.
Several people I had conversations with were hugely influential. People who found internal inconsistency in Westboro's ideology. It was the first thing that allowed me to recognize that Westboro was wrong.
C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.
I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
