Quotes About Reasoning

One of the problems with shutting down feeling is that we begin to live in our heads. We tell ourselves a story about what we think we're feeling or what we think we should be feeling rather than feeling our genuine emotions and allowing words to grow out of them so we can accurately describe our inner experience. When we can feel our feelings and then translate them into language, we can use our reasoning ability to play a role in regulating our emotional experience.

Distorted reasoning—which may take the form of rationalizing and justifying bizarre or unusual forms of behavior and relations—can be immature and can also produce core beliefs about life upon which even more distorted reasoning is based. For example, "he is only hitting me because he loves me.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.

If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious people in the world were people, and they had had a reason for doing what they did. So you try to find that and let the obnoxiousness come out.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.

every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

The simplest explanation is usually the right one

Pero aquella torpe relación mía con la religión nunca me mantuvo alejado de los temas metafísicos y religiosos. Siempre mantenía en un rincón de mi mente el razonamiento de que si Dios, aunque no pudiera creer en él como a mí me habría gustado, era un ser omnisciente como decían, sería sin duda muy inteligente y entendería por qué yo era incapaz de creer y me perdonaría

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

It's intelligence that makes you unhappy.

My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.

Five chickens do not make a cow.

He doubts everything, and contests each point of theology as if it were required to meet the same tests of logic and consistency that prevail in the world of science." "In other words, he expects your doctrines to make sense.

Just as [he] had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter....

She could see his reasoning. Or rather, his unreasoning. He could win all he wanted, but he knew in his heart that there was always someone who could destroy him. … "You don't understand", he said. "Yes I do." "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter." "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.