Quotes About Reasoning

Hindsight should have lent clarity to his actions; it did not. Rather, he felt a lingering sense of confusion. Everything seemed to jumble together in his mind--all the disparate incomplete reasoning, all the emotions that intertwined and colored. They would not sort themselves out for him; they would not arrange themselves in a neat orderly fashion. They merely shuffled about like stray sheep and he chased after them hopelessly.

Phryne tried reasoning with him, but he talked right over her attempts at an explanation, fixated on his belief that she had not only disobeyed him but lied to him, as well.

If we are to survive, we need magic now more than ever to defend ourselves from those in the Old World. We need to learn, discover, create. We need to use our reasoning minds and truth.

Truth was only a shifting fog to them, to be burned off by the light of their convoluted reasoning. Followers

And these are your reasons, my lord? Do you think I have others? said Lord Vetinari. My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent. Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

Joshua, cynicism is the only reasonable response to the antics of humanity.

Science is not interested in what stands to reason.

logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.

Lu-Tze had long considered that everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.

Well, the way I see it, logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.

The worst part, the worst part, was that Lord de Worde was never wrong. It was not a position he understood in relation to his personal geography. People who took an opposing view were insane, or dangerous, or possibly even not really people. You couldn't have an argument with Lord de Worde. Not a proper argument. An argument, from arguer , meant to debate and discuss and persuade by reason. What you could have with William's father was a flaming row.

He waited patiently until the uproar had died away. It was amazing, he thought, how people would argue against figures on no better basis than 'they must be wrong'.

MERE ACCUMULATION OF OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE IS NOT PROOF.

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

One thing I've learned in my limited experience is you can justify anything intellectually. There are a million reasons to stay with someone, and a million reasons to end something - so you can really only trust your gut.

I always need a reason to do something on stage, for me. I am not judging anyone: there is not a good way; there is not a bad way. You just have to justify everything.

Look," I said, trying to reason with him despite extensive experience that this rarely worked. "This isn't a great time. I have my inauguration—" "Coronation." "—coming up

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity's reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

As so often in neurotic phenomena—or is it always?—we find that the patient's reasoning, conscious or unconscious, is flawless, but rests on false premises.

Adjectives are not arguments.