Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

You can't get emotional about your work.

When I concentrate, my face is deadpan and I can see there is a coldness there - when I'm making business decisions I know I can be quite dispassionate.

You got to put the personal stuff away and see the business side of it.

I care about facts. I don't care about your feelings.

People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I'm sorry.

Zuck is unemotional. He doesn't get influenced by ego.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.