Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.
In terms of style, the best advocates are relaxed, clear, in control, and confident. They embrace the hard questions with gusto. But no matter how hard you prepare, it's impossible to prepare for every conceivable question.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.