Thinking Quotes

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul... ...

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one... ...

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

We should be thankful not only to those we agree with, but also to those who have simpler ideas, because they still help us develop our thinking.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.