William Wordsworth Quotes

Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

We murder to dissect.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

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

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

A thinking man can never be a party man.

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

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Ironically, when a bunch of very smart people are sitting around a table for hours trying to figure out whether they should do something, that tends to not necessarily lead to the best results.

I have always tended to over-think things and that had come into my game. That's good in certain moments but not when you have to make a quick decision.

I'm big on watching film, and sometimes it hurts myself because I over-calculate things, or I overthink sometimes.

I'm the type of person, my mind is too strong; I think too hard.

If you overthink things, you end up doing things without the right reasons in mind.

I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.