Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Don't confuse evidence with a conclusion.

What we showed you was you can have analytic reasoning that can be passionate.

I'm a thinker.

No, I don't want to coach. I don't want to coach.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Reasons come first. Answers come second

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.