Thinking

Famous quotes containing the word thinking:

“[A person] is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to it: It being impossible for any one to perceive, without perceiving that he does perceive.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)

“Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

“It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)