Quotes About Reasoning

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.

Whenever I have doubt, I often use epistemological methods or dialectic methods to come to a rational conclusion.

Mankind has two immense problems, they forget to use logic and begin at the root of each trouble.

Fear can't be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They're like love. They're almost identical emotions.

Thoughts are nothing but cause and effect.

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.

...you'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every time you make a choice in life you're cheating.

Tarot helps us look within ourselves to understand our emotions, the reasoning behind our words and conduct, and the source of our conflicts.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

if you give people the reasons to reason and you don't reason, reason!

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.