What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.