Jimmy Wales Quotes

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

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

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

I possess a strong sense of reason.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'

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

Italians think with their heads.

I'm always quite rational.

I am a logical person and can handle situations calmly.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

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

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

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

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

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.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

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.