Walkup's Way Home Quotations on Thinking
 

As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7.

 

You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where you thoughts take you.  James Allen

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.  ~Albert Einstein
 

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.  --  Siddhartha Buddha

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. -- Orison Swett Marden

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.  --  Mahatma Gandhi

One's own thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what he becomes. -- Maitri Upanishads (c. BC 800-)

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. — William Shakespeare

 To change your life is to change your thinking. L. Walkup

One thought cannot awake without awakening others. -- Marie Ebner-Eschenbach.

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think
for yourself.  -- Doris Lessing

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates       

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and  take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural  tastes, civilize and sterilize you.  
--F. Scott Fitzgerald                                                            

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), French philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel     More about the author

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.-- Edith Hamilton (1867-1963),

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.-- Dr. Laurence J. Peter

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. Bertrand Russell

No really great man ever thought himself so.
-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830),

The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.  Wilferd Arland Peterson

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas. Victor Hugo

A small man is made up of small thoughts. Victor Hugo

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.-- James Hillman

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82),

Is it, " We are what we eat"  or " We are as we think."?   L. Walkup

Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege. -- Abbé Raynal.

A thought which does not result in action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. — Georges Bernanos

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought , and attended to my answer.-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62),

Thought is action in rehearsal. — Sigmund Freud

Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought once awakened does not again slumber. — Thomas Carlyle

Good Thoughts:

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
-- Dr. Robert H. Schuller (b. 1926), American Protestant minister

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. James Allen

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?"
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, Director of Advertising at Macy's


Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton, Mayor of Ottawa, 1962

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. — Edmund Burke
 

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.  ~John F. Kennedy


Our best thinking is done twice, whereas our best intuition is done at once. - W. Leitzen

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.   --  Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.-- Paul Fix (1902-83),

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
      - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)

Our best thinking is done twice, whereas our best intuition is done at once. - W. Leitzen

Thinking men cannot be ruled. -- Ayn Rand

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
  --  Thomas Edison

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy. — Sun Yat-sen

When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. -- Shakti Gawain (b. 1948),

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.  --  William James

  In matters of conscience first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence last thoughts are best. -- Robert Hall.

Thinking is more precious than all five senses.  --  Nachman of Bratslav

All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times; But to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly, Until they take root in our personal experience.-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),

Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.  --  Christopher Morley
 

  Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think. -- Buffon.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.  --  Thomas Paine

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; Nothing expands possibilities like unleashed thinking. William Ward

Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts.  Benjamin Disraeli

  Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. -- Disraeli.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.  --  Albert Einstein
 

Take away thought from man's life, and what remains? -- Pestalozzi.

Critical thinking is not just a matter of applying the rules of logic
(much less scientific method).  It is a matter of thinking and feeling
empathetically with others, of engaging one's imagination, of having
access to a wealth of facts about the possible effects of alternative
actions, of discerning patterns of meaning in experience, of looking
at the world from different perspectives.  --Warren Nord

Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of
actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing,
synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or
generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or
communication, as a guide to belief and action.  --Michael Scriven
and Richard Paul
 

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.
  --  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. -- Hare.

  A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return. -- Bacon.

Every pure thought is a glimpse of God. -- C. A. Bartol.

  Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. -- Rivarol.

  Learning without thought is labor lost. -- Confucius.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.  --  George Bernard Shaw

The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be
proven by a single indicator " your current results." -
James A. Ray
 

Thoughts on Thinking from John Maxwell's Thinking for a Change:

One of the reasons people don't achieve their dreams is that they desire to change their results without changing their thinking. James Maxwell, Thinking for a Change (page 7)

The hero is the one with ideas. Jack Welch, Former chairman of General Electric (page 12)

Learning to think better is a great investment in yourself - but it's also the greatest present you can give someone else, because it represents the gift of unlimited potential. John Maxwell 26

If you want to live on a new level, you have to think on a new level. James Maxwell (page 34)

Good thinking is always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss. James Maxwell (page 38)

When focused thinking is at its best, not only does the idea grow, but so do I. John Maxwell (page 81)

Most people use their calendar as a planning tool, whit it is. But few people use it as a reflective thinking tool. John Maxwell (page 183)

Some of the most valuable thought you've ever had may have been lost because you didn't give yourself the reflection time you needed. John Maxwell (page 182)

The value you receive from reflecting will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself . John Maxwell (page 183)

You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results. John Maxwell (page 199)

It is in reflection that I discover who I am.  In this activity I become truly human. L. Walkup

In consciously thinking and deliberating courses of action, I create myself and determine my future.  L. Walkup.

 

 

 
Connect the following 9 dots by drawing only 4 straight lines: 
(Hint: you must think outside of the box.)
The  answer is at the bottom of this page
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Critical Thinking   Self-Inventory

 

Who is the best thinker that you know? What distinguishes his/her thinking?

 

Do you "think" the same way that you did ten years ago? What has contributed to the evolution of your thinking process in the past decade?

 

What separates you from your classmates or from the mass of people?  What is your attitude and thinking style?

 

Have you ever known a victim who is a success?

 

What separates you from your classmates?   What is your attitude and thinking style?

Self-Inventory -  Critical Thinking Checklist

 

How To

If I  want to be a great thinker, how do I go about it

Often a great place to start (be it a job, diet, program of study...) is to take an inventory to determine
1. Where we are
2. Where we want to go
3. How we will accomplish our journey.
 

Make continuous thinking a habit. Continually exercise your mind, after all it is a muscle. Play  games, with it.

How to think

Be willing to look at the problem from multiple perspectives
Define the problem
State the wished-for outcome
Gather information & facts
Let the information simmer and talk to you
Develop a plan of action and follow through
 

Creative thinkers

 

 

Links

Take a Thinking Inventory at http://www.davidlazear.com/thinking_inventory.htm
Evaluate your
critical thinking (brainstorming, comparing prioritizing, drawing conclusions...)
creative thinking (imagining, inventing, formulating new ideas and thoughts...)
Problem solving (progress towards goals, articulating long-range goals, articulating solutions)

 

Critical Thinking: Fallacies, diagrams... From the Institute for Teaching & learning       http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/main.html

 

The History of Critical Thinking - From   http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/cthistory.html

 

Peak Performance: Self Assessment: Learning Style Inventory icon - Website to accompany Glencoe/McGraw-Hill's Peak Performance: Success in College and Beyond
http://www.glencoe.com/ps/peak/selfassess/learnstyle/

 

Answer to dot puzzle

 

 

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin
to establish themselves around and within him;
or old laws will be expanded and interpreted
in his favor in a more liberal sense,
and he will live with a license of a higher order of beings.

- Henry David Thoreau -

 

Resources for a future lecture:

http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/  Ethics text

Gensler s text  http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/

 

http://www.takebackcontrolofyourlife.com/excerpts/thinkingforachange.htm
Maxwell review


 

Record your ideas
Listen too the whisperings of ideas, for if you do not, they will soon stop speaking to you.

The highest form of happiness is contemplation ....Of all the pleasures in life, contemplation is the most continuous and self-sufficient. 

http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/ms/arist-00.htm

 

the contemplative process, the process of knowing more and more until all is known, is endless. All can never be grasped by a finite being, because all includes the infinite, which the finite mind cannot comprehend. Yet of all human activity, contemplation represents by itself "the higher and more enduring part in the soul's life. . . . Even on earth, the contemplative moments are the highest and the most condensed."200  quoted from Dietrich von Hildebrand,

Through contemplation, the knower assimilates to himself in the order of intentionality all nature, and indeed God himself. In this activity, one arrives at the highest and most intimate mode of possessing all reality, but also in a most intimate and personal way one becomes all reality.204....Thomas says that "it is possible that in a single being the whole comprehensiveness of the universe may dwell."206  http://www.crvp.org/book/Series01/I-12/appendix.htm

 

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