R. A. Salvatore Quotes

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

No political cliche can stand up to reality.

One must be careful not to prejudge the past.

In anything you do, if you don't let your emotion take over you, you can make the better decisions.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

By the rules of debate, if you lose your cool, you've lost the game.

In business, my head needs to rule over my heart.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.