Quotes About Reasoning

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

Men argue nature acts.

When you are Patient you can be Practical and rationale

It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

Knowledge is justified belief.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.