Analysis Quotes

"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons." "If you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so. But it turns out in life that your most important decisions are always made with instinct and intuition, taste, heart." "Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people" "Experts often possess more data than judgment." "Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting." "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth." "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it" "The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work" "The function of the scholar is to destroy myths" "The simplest explanation is always the most likely." "If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences and infer the motivation" "When scientific evidence is given, reasoning is paramount." "My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous" "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting" "We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success."