Quotes About Reasoning

Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.

You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

The causes being known, the knowledge of the effects is sure to follow.