Aristotle Quotes

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

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

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

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

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

I don't analyze things like titles.

Debates measure abilities you don't need to govern, like glibness. To govern you should be thoughtful, not glib. A debater has a sense of humor, but what's it got to do with governing? The ability to think on your feet. You make a budget sitting on your tush.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.

Some people are great at the pure mathematical things - like Bill Gates, he's great at math things. He loves to do puzzles. Me, I like to look at an overall landscape and try to figure out, how do you solve a problem?

Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions.

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?'

Some players are wonderful hitters of the ball, but they can't figure out ways to get out of trouble. Eighty percent of the time, there is a way. You just have to know how to look for it.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

I'm a pretty good problem solver.

I always try to stay methodical and logical with everything I do, playing cricket and making decisions.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

We are speaking to the intelligence of Canadians, not to their emotion.

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

Italians think with their heads.

My job is to be a problem-solver.