Terry Pratchett Quotes

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use.

I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

Italians think with their heads.

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.