"We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely."
–– Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021), American biologist, naturalist, and writer
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 63.
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."
–– Christopher Morley (1890-1957), American writer
Source: Shigehiro Oishi. Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life. New York: Double Day, 2025; p. 43.
via: Sketchbook M 13 2024, 2025, p. 16.
"We become what we think about most of the time."
–– Earl Nightingale (1921-1989), American motivational speaker and author
Source: the brain coach, Instagram stories, January 3, 2025.
"If you never question things, your life ends up being limited by other people's imaginations. Take the time to think and dream, to question and reconsider. It is better to be limited by what you can dream for yourself than by where you fit in someone else's dream."
–– James Clear (b. 1986), American writer, Atomic Habits.
Source: Jeff Karp. LIT: Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action. New York: William Morrow, 2024; p. 29.
"Because we think in a fragmentary way, we see fragments. And this way of seeing leads us to make actual fragments of the world."
–– Susan Griffin (b. 1943), American radical feminist philosopher, essayist and playwright
Source: Gabor Maté. The Myth of Normal. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022; p. 13.
via: Sketchbook N 14, 2004, p. 25.
"I think 99 times and I find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me."
–– Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist
"The world is what you think of it. So think of it differently and your life will change."
–– Paul Arden (1940-2008), British creative director and author
"A thing is a think."
–– Alan Watts (1915-1973), British philosopher and writer
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2020, p. 37.
"You don't have to believe everything you think."
–– Erykah Badu (b. 1971), American singer, songwriter, record producer, actress
"What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn't merely sensational, that doesn't get its message across in ten seconds, that isn't falsely iconic, that hooks into something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media."
–– Robert Hughes (1938-2012), Australian writer and art critic
via: Sketchbook 21, 2013, p. 81
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
–– Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), American writer and screenwriter
