Serious Thinking Quotes

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously.

I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an atheist that I, another negro inmate whom I'd heard in a discussion with white inmates and who was able to hold his own at all levels. And he impressed me with his knowledge, and I began to listen very carefully to some of the things he said.

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.