Top 100 How To Think Quotes
#1. Every child should learn to program a computer because it will teach you how to think.
Steve Jobs
#2. Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials
they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think
rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
Alan Arkin
#3. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
James Beattie
#4. My mom did what school didn't. She taught me how to think.
Trevor Noah
#5. Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#6. A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.
Jeff Cooper
#7. For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking - Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#8. Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#9. I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art. In the end, I developed a more sophisticated misunderstanding of art.
Gavin Turk
#10. People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#11. Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.
Charlie Trotter
#12. I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
Waris Ahluwalia
#13. I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
Gregory Maguire
#14. how to think in the right genre?" "We already do it, every day. We tell ourselves what kind of story we're in, and we're often wrong, because life is mostly every genre, sometimes at once.
Michael R. Underwood
#15. One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
Abraham Pais
#16. I just dont know how ... to think less. If you know how, then teach me ...
Aishah Madadiy
#17. A liberal arts education teaches you how to think - I read that somewhere. The hard facts you learn are secondary to that. The big thing you take away from school with you is how to induct and deduct in a constructive way.
Stephen King
#18. It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.
Robert B. Parker
#19. The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.
Sherry Turkle
#20. Let grammar rule the man who doesn't know how to think what he feels. Let it serve those who are in command when they express themselves.
Fernando Pessoa
#21. I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.
Elvis Costello
#22. You gotta learn how to think right before you can live right.
Joyce Meyer
#23. The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
Brandon Sanderson
#24. These were notes on how to write, and thus notes on how to think.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#25. Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.
Veronica Roth
#26. Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
Bryant McGill
#27. And the more technically developed a nation or race is, the more cruel, ruthless, predatory, and commercialized its systems tend to become ... all because we continue to think like animals and have not learned how to think consistently like human beings. A. K.
A.E. Van Vogt
#28. College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.
Anne Hathaway
#29. It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.
Fredric Jameson
#30. Teach the young people how to think, not what to think.
Sidney Sugarman
#31. Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#32. We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
Yakov Smirnoff
#33. Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer ... because it teaches you how to think.
Steve Jobs
#34. I thought you said you were trying to quit swearing!
Go to hell, Paulette. I will. As soon as I can have a whole week where no crazy or ridiculous or unbelievable shi*t happens an my mind is calm long enough to remember how to think.
Terry McMillan
#35. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret Mead
#36. What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that." Kaladin
Brandon Sanderson
#38. True education does not fill our minds with facts but teach us how to think to gain wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#39. It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.
Ruth Rendell
#40. Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.
James Altucher
#41. Most bad people are good people that don't know how to think critically. These people become the blind weapons of a society.
Debasish Mridha
#42. I guess you could say that the Bible is a book that doesn't try to tell you what to think. Instead, it tries to teach you how to think. It stretches your thinking; it challenges you to think bigger and harder than you ever have.
Brian D. McLaren
#43. They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.
Adelard Of Bath
#44. No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.
Atul Gawande
#45. Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.
Nero Wolf in Death of a Dude.
Rex Stout
#46. Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.
Will Ferrell
#47. Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.
James A.C. Brown
#49. Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#51. EDUCATION TEACHES US HOW TO THINK, INTELLIGENCE HOW TO QUESTION, AND OUR MORALITY WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT WE KNOW. BE WARY THEN OF THE EDUCATED, INTELLIGENT, AND AMORAL PERSON, FOR THEY WILL KNOW ONLY THAT THEY CAN DO A THING, NOT WHETHER THEY SHOULD.
Mark T. Barnes
#52. Originals by Adam Grant is one of the best books I've read on how to be more creative at work and how to think outside the box, sell your ideas, and make a difference. 10.YOUR CREATIVE LIFE. The War of Art by Steven
Vishen Lakhiani
#54. Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.
George Carlin
#55. Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures.
Lionel Suggs
#56. If your goal is transformation, then it's more important to teach them how to think than what to think.
Ken Hensley
#57. Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.
Tamar Jacoby
#58. Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#59. Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.
Roland Lazenby
#60. The spectrum of possibilities is vast and our souls long to incorporate as many as they can... We are in a constant process of learning how to think, behave, or act understanding the manifestations of Tao, the manifestation of Qi within us.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#61. Some of us have been playing the same self-defeating records over and over again in our heads for so long that we don't know how to think any differently about ourselves.
Steve Harvey
#62. The principal goal of education in schools is to teach students basic knowledge and kindle mindsets that know how to think better and to understand the world in which they live.
Debasish Mridha
#63. In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.
Criss Jami
#64. This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal".
Angela Y. Davis
#65. Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.
Kelly McCreary
#66. I think I just pick really smart and motivated people to work with - people who are probably going to do great things anyway - and I just teach them what I know, maybe teach them how to think a little clearer than they did before, and then off they go.
Tucker Max
#67. Once you learn how to think you can teach yourself anything.
Jeffrey Fry
#68. In school we learn to think alike, but true education is to learn how to think differently.
Debasish Mridha
#69. What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?
Jonathan Dee
#70. To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.
Bill Gates
#71. My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.
Holly Near
#72. I think poetry will survive and I don't think it will be the end of poetry. Our tremendous onslaught of mass media all the time that we're suffering and we don't really know how to think about, I think that puts certain things at risk.
Edward Hirsch
#73. We can fly, you know. We just don't know how to think the right thoughts and levitate ourselves off the ground.
Michael Jackson
#74. When you become ministers, teach your people how to think independently without relying on you for instructions. Don't be a leader who tries to control people. Do not limit your people, but provide a creative environment for them to take the initiative
Sunday Adelaja
#75. The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.
Stedman Graham
#76. It is vitally important for women to learn how to think biblically for themselves instead of being enslaved to other people's thoughts and opinions. To truly follow God with everything in our lives, we must learn to develop discernment.
Sally Clarkson
#77. I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight, not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was.
Stephen J. Cannell
#78. ...if you were convinced that the world had forgotten how to think and teach, if you believed it had discarded the beauty of art and literature, if you thought it had crushed the power of truth, would you let that world educate your children?
Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
#79. Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.
Phil Klay
#80. I think it's very important that we teach children how to think, not what to think.
J.D. Brucker
#81. I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
Lady Gaga
#82. Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?
Peter Hitchens
#83. These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally.
Rush Limbaugh
#84. There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.
Benjamin Disraeli
#85. I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.
Joyce Meyer
#86. We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.
James Randi
#87. I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.
Jason Reitman
#88. But I'm gonna make sure when you leave here, you'll know three things very well. How to think. How to not die. And how to live." For
Lucian Bane
#89. We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.
Dr. Seuss
#90. As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process that teaches how to think when we are not writing.
Ted Agon
#91. To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-- or both.
Elizabeth Charles
#92. A lot of highly-educated people have been told what to think, therefore, they think they know it all. The other segment of the population has to figure out how to think, therefore they question everything.
Jewel E. Ann
#93. He doesn't teach you what to think, he teaches you how to think
Lurlene McDaniel
#94. People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.
John C. Maxwell
#96. At one point in my life, I learned how to think. I used to know how to feel. In war, these are lessons best forgotten.
Ruth Ozeki
#97. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.
John Dewey
#98. We knew right off how to think of them but not precisely how to feel about them.
Jane Smiley
#99. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, author Michael J. Gelb
Jon Acuff
#100. Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
Gary Bauer
