Quotes About Reasoning

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.

Faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence is pointing.

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

Learn to listen and weigh the other person's reasoning with yours. Be humble enough to know that you could be wrong too or the other person may have some good points that may be helpful in finding a solution to the problem.

I wont give you any reasons as to why I like you, or why I love you. Theres no need for reasoning when it comes to that matter. But when you ask me to leave you,Ill give you thousands of reasons as to why I should stay and be by your side.

You should recognize that man's soul, this single entity whose powers and parts we have described, may be compared to matter, and that the power of reasoning is its completed form. As long as the soul lies dormant and does not acquire its form from knowledge, then the nature of the soul is useless and exists in vain.

that you have three of the most important virtues a policeman can have," he thought. "You are stubborn and logical, and completely calm.

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they proceed to the reasons for that act, they are content with the merest appearance, ordinarily founded upon one of those maxims of common-place psychology which are neither more nor less true than their opposites.

For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

We reason, that is, our mind wanders, each time our courage fails to force us to pursue an intuition through all the successive stages which end in its fixation, in the expression of its own reality.

For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.

C'est la vie qui peu à peu, cas par cas, nous permet de remarquer que ce qui est le plus important pour notre coeur, ou pour notre esprit, ne nous est pas appris par le raisonnement mais par des puissances autres.

Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,/ food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse/Of looks and smiles, for smiles from Reason flow,/To brutes denied, and are of Love the food, Love not the lowest end of human life. For not to irksome toil, but to delight/ He made us, and delight to reason join'd.

God gave you a brain and a heart. The heart is warm, but your wits must be cold.

Sherlock Holmes and that whole Holmes thing—that once you've eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, must be the truth. What Holmes never admitted was that there is a vast universe of the possible, and sorting through all the possibilities is often impossible.

That seems reasonable," Lucas said, because it was.