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Quotes About Reasoning

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.
~ Isaac Asimov
Baley's lips twitched. He had guessed that in some ways robotic logic must fall short and he was convinced of it now. As the roboticist had said: Logical but not reasonable.
~ Isaac Asimov
The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.
~ Isaac Asimov
And finally, people are against it." "But why?" "Because they're against science in general. You should know this as well as anyone, Professor.
~ Isaac Asimov
Un encadenamiento de razonamientosválidos sólo puede llevar a la determinación de la verdad.
~ Isaac Asimov
Eliminate the impossible and whatever remained, however improbable, was the truth.
~ Isaac Asimov
Întreaga ÅŸtiin?? se bazeaz? pe credinÅ£a în anumite premise ÅŸi în valabilitatea deducÅ£iei ÅŸi a inducÅ£iei.
~ Isaac Asimov
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason — if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.
~ Isaac Asimov
In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much–neglected commodity – common sense.
~ Isaac Asimov Foundation
You say to your soldier, 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.
~ Baron von Steuben
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
~ Victor Hugo
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
~ Bertrand Russell
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
~ Edith Hamilton
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
~ Sydney J. Harris
How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
~ Sophocles
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
~ Horace Mann
Answer a fool according to his folly.
~ Bible
Man is a reasoning, rather than a reasonable animal.
~ Robert B. Hamilton
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
~ Cardinal De Retz
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.
~ Ron Eglash
The mind resorts to reason for want of training.
~ Henry Adams