Albert Ellis Quotes

When you have answers, when everything has a reason, when it makes sense to an analytical person, you're going to be more successful. You're going to be more comfortable.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

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

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.

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

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.

I agree that it's important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

I think young people really do care. They want to build their life on something that's solid and makes sense, that's rational, that's not built on mythology, make-believe and wishful thinking.

... what would Poirot do? Poirot wouldn't flap around in a panic. He'd stay calm and use his little grey cells and recall some tiny, vital detail which would be the clue to everything.

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.