Balanced Thinking Quotes

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.

I've never acted fully impulsively. I think with my mind and my heart.

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

I'm one of the more positive cats, but when people go off about everybody wanting to be a DJ, I don't doubt them either. I understand their point as well.

I am a rational person. I am moderate. I am humble.

However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.

The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck in, Dennis!', and the head says, 'just a minute... ' But I probably don't use this as often as some others.

India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

We cherish right and we cherish left, but more important, we cherish when you are able to use the whole mind that you were born with.

I like clothes. And I think it's OK to think about clothes just so long as you also think about other things. I'm not interested in clothes to the point where they'll push other things out of my mind; I just see them as a way of expressing yourself, and a pleasure, really.

I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don't overanalyze, either.

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

What is necessary is not EHV, but 3-HV: (Head-Heart-and Hands). The hands should carry out what the heart and approved of the ideas emanated from the head.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.