Quotes About Reasoning

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.

Twentieth-century philosophy is not unique in its ability to confuse puzzles with problems.

The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.

Wars are won with heads, not hearts.

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I'll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction.

Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

If someone is angry with you, it has a reason. To know just put yourself in the same condition and at the place of that one and talk the same arguments

The reasoning faculty is often faulty, because it is largely guided by one's accumulated experience. Not all knowledge which one accumulates through experience is accurate. Ideas received through the creative faculty are much more reliable, for the reason that they come from sources more reliable than any which are available to the reasoning faculty of the mind.

Your subconscious has access to all the same information your conscious mind receives, but it doesn't reason the way your conscious mind does. It takes everything literally. It doesn't make value judgments. It does not filter or interpret, it simply processes information literally and stores it.

Cold reasoning has no influence whatsoever on the subconscious mind. The subconscious responds only to the impulses of thought that have been emotionalized or mixed with strong feelings.

The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.

Locke's definition of a madman: someone "reasoning correctly from erroneous premises.