Bennett Cerf Quotes

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

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

There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

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.

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

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.

I have come to this conclusion: if 'sentimentality' is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism.