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Tuesday 24th of March 2026

Thinking For 15 minutes, the team left participants alone in a lab room in which they could push a button and shock themselves if they wanted to. The results were startling:  Even though all participants had previously stated that they would pay money to avoid being shocked with electricity, 67% of men and 25% of women chose to inflict it on themselves rather than just sit there quietly and think. Science magazine, July 3, 2014 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Thinking If you don't think too good, don't think too much. Ted Williams © 2023 Kwiple.com
Thinking Measure twice. Cut once. a carpenter's proverb © 2016 Kwiple.com
Thinking Oy vey iz mir! I'm with stupid! What Gary Cohn, Trump's chief economic adviser, and Steve Mnuchin, his Treasury Secretary, must have been thinking when being interviewed by the editors of The Economist, along with Trump, who asked the editors if they'd heard the expression “prime the pump” and then said he created it “a couple of days ago and I thought it was good” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Thinking People who lose reading skills also lose thinking skills. Their need for simplicity is met by  politicians offering “simplism”: the ideology of simple answers for complex problems.  Simplism is sold under euphemisms such as “common sense”, “moral clarity” and “telling it straight”. The chief simplist, Donald Trump, speaks at the level of a fourth-grader. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, October 19, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Thinking Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question. Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Thinking The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking. Albert Einstein © 2016 Kwiple.com
Thinking The team [that tested and confirmed the hypothesis that low-effort, automatic thinking promotes political conservativism] also found they could push people to the right by distracting them, putting them under time pressure or simply telling them not to think too hard. Participants who were asked to deliberate more deeply, in contrast, shifted their political thinking to the left. New Scientist, December 16, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Thinking Think before you speak. Read before you think.  Fran Lebowitz, “Tips for Teens”  © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Thinking When researchers in the US loitered outside a bar in New England and asked customers about their political views, they found that the drunker the punter, the more right-wing their leanings. That wasn't because right- wing people drink more or get pissed more easily. Wherever people stood on the political spectrum when sober, alcohol shifted their views to the right. Why might that be? The researchers … pointed out that alcohol strips away complex reasoning to reveal the default state of mind. And that is why they were chatting to drunks: they were using drunkenness to test the hy- pothesis that low-effort, automatic thought promotes political conservatism. New Scientist, December 16, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com