Trent Dilfer Quotes

When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

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.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

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

Ignorance never settles a question.

Happy is the one who knows the causes of things.

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.

The search for information gives me more confidence, because confidence arises from understanding.

Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.

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

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.