Quotes About Reasoning

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.