Louis van Gaal Quotes

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

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

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

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.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

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

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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.

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.

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.

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

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.