559 quotes found
“Reason with most people means their own opinions.”
“Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.”
“Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.”
“If you do everything you should do and do not do anything you should not do you will according to the best available statistics live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.”
“Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.”
“Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.”
“It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.”
“When possible make the decisions now even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.”
“We spend our days in deliberating and we end them without coming to any resolve.”
“If you think too long you think wrong.”
“The moment a question comes to your mind see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build charac...”
“Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor the best opportunities they will never come.”
“There comes a time when you've got to say "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who w...”
“Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.”
“Alternatives and particularly desirable alternatives grow only on imaginary trees.”
“The more one does and sees and feels the more one is able to do and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home and love and understanding companionship.”
“Our danger is not too few but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.”
“I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.”
“If decisions were a choice between alternatives decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.”
“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
