Quotes About Reasoning

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

I think true artificial general intelligence would be a system that is able to perform human-level reasoning, understanding, and accomplishing of complicated tasks.

Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be fully understood, they will not accept. We call these people 'intellectuals.'

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

Any religion that cannot stand up to a modern scientific reasoning, and to rational proof, is asinine

Depend upon it, he who wishes to win the prize must come on the principle that two and two make four.

Is it reasonable to assume that the jarring nature of a particular consequence might be the very thing that strong-arms us away from making the poor choice that we didn't see as a poor choice?

Proverbs 28:26Those who trust in their own reasoning are fools, but those who walk in Wisdom will be kept safe.

Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.

Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.

I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.