Quotes About Reasoning

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...

Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart's content with nothing more than a pencil and a napkin.

Diax said something that is still very important to us, which is that you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' and sometimes we repeat it to ourselves as a reminder not to let subjective emotions cloud our judgment.

If the math works, why then you should be sure of yourself. That's the whole point of math.

Well, it's all math," he says. "If the math works, why then you should be sure of yourself. That's the whole point of math.

He divides his time between thinking about sex and thinking about mathematics.

When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating an internal belief system. Why this is so is not clear, but it enables many people to hold fast to ideas and notions based purely on supposition.

the stated authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.