Quotes About Reasoning

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses, but in the nature and parts of premisses.

When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses before zebras.

As Spinoza, or someone very much like him, once said . . .

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

Nuk luftohet nje fatalitet, e te arsyetosh per te eshte akoma me e kote

I've already explained

No somos estúpidos. Si necesitásemos que nos salvaran, ya nos habríamos salvado a nosotros mismos. No, no somos nosotros los estúpidos, sino sus agudos razonamientos, que solo le proporcionan respuestas equivocadas.

Why? Why not?

good thing about being logical is that you can judge both history and the present with clarity—and I'm a very logical male.

I call you metaphysicians because you reason metaphysically, Ernest went on. Your method of reasoning is the opposite to that of science. There is no validity to your conclusions. You can prove everything and nothing, and no two of you can agree upon anything. Each of you goes into his own consciousness to explain himself and the universe. As well may you lift yourselves by your own bootstraps as to explain consciousness by consciousness.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.