Thinking Ability Quotes

What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Men learn from one another. But all learning is only the exchange of material. No man can give another the capacity to think. Yet that capacity is our only means of survival.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

I don't have a complex mind.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: "the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth"

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

The trouble with you John, is that your spine does not reach your brain.

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.