Quotes About Reasoning

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Science is the art of the solvable.

The reasoning of the Ming and Qing states for opposing international trade is by now familiar: the fear of creative destruction.

guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two.

I guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two.

Kling's point is that no matter what language we speak, we should use slow thinking, not fast thinking. Citing Daniel Kahneman's bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kling argues that we go wrong in political discourse when we hear a fact in isolation and jump to conclusions without considering its context. He encourages us to consider political problems slowly and logically instead—much like Elder did in our 2016 interview.

If it doesn't make sense the way I'm thinking it through, it means I'm thinking it through wrong. But then what way is right? He

I mean present the best case possible using whatever facts or near facts are handy.

Once the emotions are gone, analytics are all you have left.

Arguments follow from assumptions, and assumptions follow from beliefs, and very rarely—perhaps never—do beliefs reflect an agenda determined entirely by the facts.

Emotional Reasoning. This involves reasoning from the way you feel, such as: "I feel like an idiot, so I must be one" or "I feel hopeless, so things are never going to get better." Or in the case of panic attacks, "I feel like I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown, so I must be in a lot of danger.

logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

Which he said was the big lie they all bought that made doctors and standard therapy such a waste of time for people like us -- they thought that diagnosis was the same as cure. That if you knew why, it would stop. Which is bullshit. You only stop if you stop.

El sol, cuando los ojos parpadeantes alcanzan a verlo aunque sea de soslayo, los enceguece de azul y rojo como un foco. «¿Por qué no? ¿Por qué no? ¿Por qué no «no» entonces, si el mejor razonamiento que puedes hacer es por qué no?»

have recovered the shock of losing him. It was his counsel had brought about this marriage, and all that was to ensue from it. And why was it?

Tengo por costumbre no insultar. Respetar a los adversarios engrandece las propias opiniones. En cambio el que disminuye al adversario, disminuye la importancia de su propia opinión ¿Qué gracia tendría tener la razón contra unos necios? lo grande es tener la razón contra gente seria, brillante, pero equivocada.

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple! My master sues to her, and she hath taught her suitor, He being her pupil, to become her tutor. O excellent device! was there ever heard a better, That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter? Valentine. How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself? Speed. Nay, I was rhyming: 'tis you that have the reason.

I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.

The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. King Lear: Because they are not eight? Fool: Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.

I hate your logic like I hate an empty wine goblet. To