Quotes About Reasoning

Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that.

Lucas kicked back in his chair, and thought, Let's go to Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that.

They were the only people in all the universe who were not conscious. Although every creature could think and reason, it could not know itself as every other intelligent creature could know itself. The creatures lacked awareness of who they were as individuals, even as they lived and thrived and grew on the face of the moon of the planet.

Human brains are bullshit.

Still, I'd like to know how you came up with that line of reasoning." "You can thank a rabbi," Javna said. "And a hot dog.

How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and clearness is there, maybe the result of the black reasoning. And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

After only a few minutes of back-and-forth questions their arguments always unravel—yet their conviction remains. One lesson I've learned from these years of public engagements with Christian apologists is that the arguments they offer for their faith are not the reason they have faith.

Mathematics consists of processes independent of the number. You must remove the number from your thinking and instead dwell on the idea and process of the underlying logic. The faster you do this, the quicker math will begin to make sense to you. Then maybe your life, but defiantly your grade, will get better.

To rely solely on logic is in essence to operate within a structure of limited knowledge and understanding

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can't afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

There's always a reason not to be upset, and if you give that reason more importance, you'll live life with a carefree mindset.

I had only an imperfect understanding of the nature to which I was bound, whereas today I know the truth about it, at least from a subjective point of view. As for its objective truth, that is, whether these semi-hidden intuitions were any better than my reasoning at capturing Albertine's real intentions, and whether I was right to trust to my nature or whether it did not in fact distort Albertine's intentions instead of clarifying them, is difficult for me now to say.

I arrived there at the same time as the Germans. Everybody wanted to prevent me going, I was treated as though I were mad. 'What,' they said to me, 'you are safe in Paris and you want to leave for those invaded regions just as everybody else is trying to get away from them?' I recognised the justice of this reasoning but what was to be done?