Paul Bloom Quotes

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

Italians think with their heads.

I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

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

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

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

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

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

If I could tell every Trump supporter two things, it would be to travel and read a history book. Look beyond yourselves; look at how petty the morals you uphold seem when you realize we are not the only ones.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.

Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.

No nation like the United States of America can continue to grow and be a strong nation if we are going to judge people because they disagree with our agenda rather than the content of their statements. We have to be critical thinkers. We have to be analytical. We should understand facts from emotion.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.