Amul Thapar Quotes

Italians think with their heads.

First with the head, then with the heart.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

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

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

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

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

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

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

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

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.