Rachel Sklar Quotes

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

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

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

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

So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

We don’t need to ban bad ideas. We just need to criticize bad ideas.

It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

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.

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

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

When you have answers, when everything has a reason, when it makes sense to an analytical person, you're going to be more successful. You're going to be more comfortable.

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.