Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Italians think with their heads.

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

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

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

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

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

Emotions are the curse of logic.

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.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt