William Goldman Quotes

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

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

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

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

Italians think with their heads.

Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

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

Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

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

Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

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.

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use.

I always try to stay methodical and logical with everything I do, playing cricket and making decisions.