Joyce Meyer Quotes

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

Appreciating complexity while searching through its thickets to find essential factors leads to understanding.

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

Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual. Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

Smarter is always the answer.

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

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.