Top 1200 Logical Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.

Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

Since the election [of Donald Trump], I've been thinking about a lot of theory. Lots of [Michel] Foucault and [Karl] Marx, thinking about different systems, thinking about power. Trying to figure out what I can take and learn from history as a tool for getting through whatever is happening right now, which feels very significant and major.

Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic.

There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost, I just devoured it, as a story. At that time, and still, it just encompassed a lot of things that I was thinking about, and that the world is thinking about, with society's relationship to the environment, our personal relationship to it, and how disconnected we are from it, myself included.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.

Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.

At times, I'm thinking negatively, thinking that we don't learn from our mistakes, but then I get more positive-minded. I do believe in the good of humanity.

I had told my wife that I was thinking of retiring at the end of the year. I was thinking I didn't want to do it anymore, but then I was traded to the Dodgers.

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.

When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

You overcome the logical resistance to change by proving that a new approach actually works, usually on a small scale.

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

When I was 14 I wasn't even thinking of playing professional tennis. I was thinking of going to high school in Sweden then getting a job.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

Thinking ahead or thinking behind is not good for me.

Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.

Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.

I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved.

At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has, and I hope that REBT teaches them how to do it.