This document summarizes a lecture on thinking and thought. It discusses how thinking allows humans to make sense of and interpret the world to accomplish goals, though there is no consensus on how to define thinking. Thinking can refer to both the act of producing thoughts and the process of producing thoughts. Thought underlies many human actions and has been studied by various academic fields, though there is also no agreed-upon definition of thought. The document concludes with several quotes on topics relating to thinking, learning, wisdom and the mind.

1. Thinking Mind
Dr. Akhlas Ahmed
IBT, City Campus
Feb 18th
, 2017
Lecture # 5

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. The world as we have created it is
a process of our thinking.
It cannot be changed without
changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

16. None but ourselves can free our minds.
― Bob Marley

17. Never stop learning…

18. Quiet people have the loudest minds.
― Stephen Hawking

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

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

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

22. The only true wisdom is in knowing
you know nothing.
― Socrates

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

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

25. Thanks