Quotes About Reasoning

Non di rado accade che, quando un uomo si trova contrariato in modo inconsueto e violentemente assurdo, egli cominci a nutrir dubbi sulle sue più salde convinzioni. Egli comincia, per così dire, a dubitare vagamente che, per strana che la cosa possa sembrare, la ragione e la giustizia si trovino dall'altra parte.

Your reasoning is fine, but your experience is limited. Enlarge your experience, and your philosophy will be different.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons -- that's philosophy.

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.

Even a trashy movie can make you cry. There were deep emotional reactions that ducked the censure of the higher reasoning processes and forced us to enact, however vestigially, our roles - me, the indignant secret lover revealed; Clarissa the woman cruelly betrayed.

I think I've been rather reasonable about this whole situation. How do you figure? They are still breathing, aren't they?

Curran never did anything without a reason he was so controlled, even his one-night stands were premeditated.

As it happened so often with our species, logical reasoning was discarded in favor of the overpowering need to be right, facts and consequences be damned.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

The public wants to know why or why not. They don't want to know how you're going to do it.

Logic is simply the language of convenient rationalization in a pseudo-science-loving civilization.

Anyone could reason themselves into a corner, and so justify surrender.

Stupid people always had a reason to be angry but didn't have the capacity to understand that they were angry because they were frustrated, and they were frustrated because they didn't understand, and they didn't understand because they were stupid.

As the writer Arthur Koestler astutely observed, "Johannes Kepler became enamored with the Pythagorean dream, and on this foundation of fantasy, by methods of reasoning equally unsound, built the solid edifice of modern astronomy. It is one of the most astonishing episodes in the history of thought, and an antidote to the pious belief that the Progress of Science is governed by logic.

Calculus, like other forms of mathematics, is much more than a language; it's also an incredibly powerful system of reasoning.