Copy right: The Chronicle of Higher Education
My life and work has been aimed at one goal only: to infer or guess how the mental apparatus is constructed and what forces interplay and counteract in it.
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Austrian psychoanalystWe should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
German-born U.S. physicist
Out of My Later YearsIf an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter
Indian InkI took my mind a walk or my mind took me a walk – whichever was the truth of it.
Norman McCaig (1910 - 1996)
Scottish poet
"An Ordinary Day"Mental reflection is so much more interesting than T.V. It's a shame more people don't switch over to it. They probably think that what they hear is unimportant but it never is.
Robert T. Pirsig (1928 - )
U.S. writer
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceMental reflection is so much more interesting than T.V. It's a shame more people don't switch over to it. They probably think that what they hear is unimportant but it never is.
Robert T. Pirsig (1928 - )
U.S. writer
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceIn everything that is supposed to be scientific, Reason must be awake and reflection applied. To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back. The relation is mutual.
G. W. F. Hegel (1770 - 1831)
German philosopher
Reason in HistoryTo doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 - 1912)
French mathematician and scientist
La Science et l'HypothèseTo take time to think is to gain time to live.
Nancy Kline
U.S. authorAs followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857 - 1952)
British physiologist
Man on his NatureHe never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
English playwright
"Love's Cure"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
U.S. journalist and writer
"archy and mehitabel"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Chinese philosopher, administrator, and moralist
Analects