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Quotes About Reasoning

Menjadi rasional tidaklah sama dengan menjadi sangat cerdas secara intelektual.
~ Tim Harford
Wet streets don't cause rain, do they?
~ Tom Clancy
There is really nothing more to say—except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
~ Toni Morrison
but then logic had never been my strong point.
~ Kerstin Gier
Imagination is biblical reasoning in its Sunday best, lost in wonder at the creativity of the Creator. Being
~ Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Beware of logic.
~ Kiana Davenport
Only an idiot guesses or reasons or deduces ,' the Professor said, patiently.
~ Kim Newman
Some say that man is evil or wicked, but I hold that man at least may be reasoned with, where wolves or blizzards or falling trees are invariably unheeding of entreaties.
~ Kim Wilkins
The difference between a young man and a mature man is not the beard but the Brain(Reasoning) because even a young man can have beards but with shallow reasoning-Kizza Ronald-
~ KIZZA RONALD
Those who criticize the usefulness of philosophy for science, Aristotle has noticed, are not doing science: they are doing philosophy.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Maybe I'm drunk right now, even though I don't remember drinking anything. When I'm drunk, I say things without thinking. Drinking numbs you from your ability to reason. It makes you forget your own character and become a crazy. Maybe I am a crazy now; I'm going through so much chaos these days that reality is hard to grasp.
~ Carlton Mellick III
Cuando te explicas las cosas a psoteriori, exprimes toda clase de razones, pero luego sólo te bebes el zumo de las que te parecen menos amargas.
~ Carmen Martín Gaite
According to Tufte, "By leaving out the narrative between the points, the bullet outline ignores and conceals the causal assumptions and analytic structure of the reasoning." A list of bullet points is a presenter's way of compressing language into brief phrases. Bulleted outlines "might be useful now and then," Tufte writes, "but sentences with subjects and verbs are usually better.
~ Carmine Gallo
The man sitting alone so silent and strong So what if you're attracted for all the wrong reasons So what if your reasoning's wrong Call his indifference mystery Call his arrogance intellect All you've got to lose is your heart And a little self-respect. If you've got arrogance and indifference You can make them pay They're the most commercial product On the romantic market today.
~ Carrie Fisher
I know that two and two make four - & should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
~ George Gordon
Ata që nuk do të arsyetojnë, janë fanatikë, ata që nuk munden, janë të marrë, dhe ata që nuk guxojnë, janë skllevër.
~ George Gordon Byron
Whatever Reality really is, it must have an inherent order. There is far too much consistency and predictability in matter, and even in personalities, for Reality to be grounded totally upon chaos or personal whimsy. And so that order should be understandable, and even explainable, by using clear conceptual reasoning to clarify what the patterns in that inherent order probably are.
~ George Hammond
Seeing may be believing, but, in order to understand what you are seeing, logic is necessary.
~ George Hammond
Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality.
~ George Lakoff
The heart of metaphor is inference. Conceptual metaphor allows inferences in sensory-motor domains (e.g., domains of space and objects) to be used to draw inferences about other domains (e.g., domains of subjective judgment, with concepts like intimacy, emotions, justice, and so on). Because we reason in terms of metaphor, the metaphors we use determine a great deal about how we live our lives.
~ George Lakoff
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
~ George Santayana
Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
~ George Santayana
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.
~ George Santayana
All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
~ Rita Mae Brown