Quotes About Reasoning

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Kærligheden er så logisk: Alle modsætninger bliver forudsætninger og sætningerne kommer forud for logikken: Jeg elsker dig, fordi det er sådan.

A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

The scientist thus learns truth experimentally or mathematically; the strategist reasons at least partly by analogy with the past – first establishing which events are comparable and which prior conclusions remain relevant.

Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow,

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

And Anatole, with the partiality dull-witted people have for any conclusion they have reached by their own reasoning, repeated the argument he had already put to Dolokhov a hundred times.

Caio é um homem,os homens são mortais, logo Caio é mortal", parecera-lhe a vida toda muito lógico e natural se aplicado a Caio, mas certamente não quando aplicado a ele próprio.

She was in the same state of excitement, when the reasoning powers act quickly, as a man before battle, in conflict, in the dangerous and decisive moments of life - those moments when a man proves once and for all his mettle, and shows that his past life has not been lived in vain but has been a preparation for these moments.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

L'italiano: ero piuttosto debole in italiano. Ma, come vede, non è poi stato un gran guaio: sono qui, procuratore della Repubblica...». «L'italiano non è l'italiano: è il ragionare» disse il professore. «Con meno italiano, lei sarebbe forse ancora più in alto».

È sempre difficile che l'ovvio e il sensato entrino in un processo.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained by induction, as we usually say. Yet we have seen cases in which mere induction led to error.

Muchas de sus paradojas lógicas son hoy valoradas en gran manera por la Lógica más avanzada

Where certainty is often a refusal to think, to question, to reason - a refusal to engage in the kind of Socratic dialogue with unbelief that the Quran urges - faith requires an awareness of the possibility of being wrong, which is why it is perhaps best defined in Hebrews 11:1 as "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not see.

If the relativist claims that, since all reasoning is embodied in a particular social context, no claim to know the truth can be sustained, one has to ask for the basis on which this claim is made. It is, after all, a claim to know something about reality — namely that reality is unknowable.

Is it not reasonable to suspect that if existence were pointless and the universe devoid of meaning, we would never have achieved not only the ability to imagine otherwise, but even the ability to entertain this very thought—to wit, that existence is pointless and the universe devoid of meaning.

W?? dowodzi gryzieniem, ?e ma racj?. A kto umrze od uk?szenia w??a, nie ma racji, bo nie?ywi z definicji racji nie maj?!