Quotes About Reasoning

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

I'm very logical.

My dad is a very logical person.

I'm not a very logical personal.

I have my own logic. I don't listen to anyone unless it's logical to me and not many people understand and appreciate my thinking.

Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.

We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness.

It is only at the reflective level that consciousness and the highest levels of feeling, emotions, and cognition reside. It is only here that the full impact of both thought and emotions are experienced. At the lower visceral and behavioral levels, there is only affect, but without interpretation or consciousness. Interpretation, understanding, and reasoning come from the reflective level.

Las personas no siempre se comportan como organismos razonadores plenos y lógicos, que empiezan por unos objetivos de alto nivel y trabajan para alcanzarlos

Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase of course or its equivalent.

Whitefield, again, was among the first to show the right way to meet infidels and skeptics. He saw clearly that the most powerful weapon against such men is not metaphysical reasoning and critical disquisition; but preaching the whole gospel, living the whole gospel, and spreading the whole gospel.

Ought not a Minister to have, First, a good understanding, a clear apprehension, a sound judgment, and a capacity of reasoning with some closeness. . . . Is not some acquaintance with what has been termed the second part of logic, (metaphysics), if not so necessary as [logic itself], yet highly expedient? Should not a Minister be acquainted with at least the general grounds of natural philosophy? JOHN WESLEY, ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY

2. Propositional knowledge.

Propositional knowledge is justified true belief; it is believing something that is true on the basis of adequate grounds.

Have you ever wondered why no one responded to the apostle Paul in this manner? If you look at his evangelistic approach in Acts 17:20, the answer becomes obvious. He based his preaching on the fact that the gospel is true and reasonable to believe. He reasoned with and tried to persuade people intelligently to accept Christ.