You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.

Whenever new shorts cuts open the old roads get freer

It’s amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.

Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn’t, don’t import it.

Persistence wears down resistance.

But that’s men all over … Poor dears, they can’t help it. They haven’t got logical minds.

Look, we are getting to be old men, and we’ve spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another’s systems… Don’t you think it’s time to recognise that there is as little worth on...

What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord?Or to the dreadful summit of the cliffThat beetles o’er his base into the sea,And there assume some other horrible formWhich might deprive your sovereignty of...

Don’t trust labels – trust logic.

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody’s easiest course at school and our species would not have...

I find the rational part of my mind curled up in a corner of my head and convince it to talk to me.

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

Intelligence is worthless without common sense.

De Bono argues that the West’s tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.

Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible...

He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make...

sometimes the most logical thought that come out from our head is far from “logic” in reality.

Emotion will never seize to prevail logic.

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.

Feelings should never supersede rational thought… so, if you feel that you’ve got the answer, you should think some more.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.

What’s the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.

God clues us in to the fact that, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” In short, God is not...

What did being connected to the world get you? It got you sadder. Look, the world is not sane. If you stay connected to an insane world, well, you just go crazy. This is not...

Where you are today is where you’re from tomorrow.

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

The sensible man,’ Crow had said (to Sherlock Holmes), ‘don’t look to confirm what he already knows — he looks to deny it. Finding evidence that backs up your theories ain’t useful, but finding evidence...

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives.

A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the...