Lecture # 5 (18.02.2017) @ ibt thinking minds

Thinking MindDr. Akhlas AhmedIBT, City Campus

Feb 18th, 2017Lecture # 5

How to define thinking?There is no general consensus as to how we define thinking. It is an activity considered essential to humanity.

Thinking…It allows humans to make sense of, interpret, represent or model the world they experience, and to make predictions about that world. It is helpful to an organism with needs, objectives, and desires as it makes plans or otherwise attempts to accomplish those goals.

Thinking…Can refer to the act of producing thoughts or the process of producing thoughts.

Thought…Is a fundamental human activity familiar to everyone, there is no generally accepted agreement as to what thought is or how it is created.

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” ― Henry Ford

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” ― Fran Lebowitz

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed withoutchanging our thinking.” 

― Albert Einstein

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” ― Voltaire

Thoughts…Refers to ideas or arrangements of ideas that are the result of the process of thinking.

Thoughts:Underlies many human actions and interactions, understanding its physical and metaphysical origins, processes, and effects has been a long-standing goal of many academic disciplines including…Linguistics, Psycology, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Sociology and Cognitive Sciences.

Why don’t you concentrate?― Verses from Holy Qur’an

The mind is every thing.What you think, you become.― Hadit from Holy Prophet

The mind is every thing.What you think, you become.― Buddha

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.― Carl Jung

None but ourselves can free our minds.― Bob Marley

Never stop learning…

Quiet people have the loudest minds.― Stephen Hawking

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.― Mae West

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.― Shakespeare

Life isn’t about finding yourself.Life is about creating yourself.― George Bernard Shaw

The only true wisdom is in knowingyou know nothing.― Socrates

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.Learn as if you were to live forever.― Gandhi

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.― Aristotle

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