Humans Quote by Roger Schank Download Open image “Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.” — Roger Schank ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Inspirational Logic Stories
Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“human beings have a remarkable ability to understand the logic of a thing without acting in accordance with that logic. And” — Joshua Guess Copy Share Image
Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic. — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“People are moved more by stories than by logic. Ease listeners into the new or unknown by building the logic of your model into… — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any field of… — David Oderberg Copy Share Image
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach. — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story adequately enough… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
“As long as we see ourselves as rational beings who can think logically and make carefully reasoned decisions about our daily lives, then education… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer. — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing. — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories. — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image