What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.
Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.
Logic, it is true, must yield to history.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty…
It's easy to defend a policy that works. It's not so easy to defend a policy that didn't work.
People are always demanding proof. These are things that are not easily proved.
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
If you believe in something, be willing to explain it.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.
Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.
Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need to change - especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import.
You try to make the decisions that you think are best in realtime.
Anything I do, I always have a reason for.
The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship. The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship.
In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.
