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Thinking as a Science
1916. Mr. Hazlitt, journalist, literary critic, economist, philosopher, was one of the most brilliant public intellectuals of our century. At the age of 20, when he finally got a job at the Wall Street Journal as a stenographer, he had already finished his first book, Thinking as a Science. Contents: The Neglect of Thinking; Thinking with Method; A Few Cautions; Concentrat...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
June 30th 2005
by Kessinger Publishing
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I highly recommend this book for anyone who has a desire to obtain any level of understanding in Economics, Politics, Philosophy, Religion, or any other similar field as well as to any who wish to solve a problem. It also warrants a high recommendation for any who wish to enrich their minds, or stimulate their intellectual processes. I do not agree with the author in everything he said, but he has accomplished a landmark achievement, and I make a final recommendation of this book to any and all...more
Written in 1916 when the author was only 24 years old.
The book is probably misnamed. It should more accurately be titled: "Exercises for the Mind: A user's guide to developing your brain for maximum effectiveness". I would probably put this book in the "self-help" category too.
I enjoyed this book and there is much to say about those who are avid readers (like many who belong to Goodreads):
"Learning to think by reading is like learning
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The book is probably misnamed. It should more accurately be titled: "Exercises for the Mind: A user's guide to developing your brain for maximum effectiveness". I would probably put this book in the "self-help" category too.
I enjoyed this book and there is much to say about those who are avid readers (like many who belong to Goodreads):
"Learning to think by reading is like learning
...more
Nothing really useful in the book and I didn't really get any kind of point the author was trying to make.
But atleast it's an example of how people used to write about 100 years ago...
But atleast it's an example of how people used to write about 100 years ago...
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Henry Hazlitt was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist for various publications including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and Newsweek. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an important libertarian publication. In 1946 Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson, his seminal text on f...more
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“A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.”
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“The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.”
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