Analytical Mind Quotes

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Question everything!

I would say that I am an academic in politics. I have never abandoned my academic approach to observe reality, independently from the subject and its constant changes.

Batman had a certain speech pattern that I established because he was always Sherlock Holmes-ian. He was Basil Rathbone. In other words, he was always musing about something.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

I think like a detective.

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

Mark Hopkins was one of the truest and best men that ever lived. He had a keen analytical mind; was thoroughly accurate, and took general supervision of the books, contracts, etc. He was strictly the office man, and never bought or sold anything. I always felt when I was in the East that our business in his hands was entirely safe.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

My talent is numbers.

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

Sometimes what my analytical mind says to me is not what I'll do.

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual horsepower and the ability to look at an issue and say something fresh.