Quotes About Reasoning

Se o rosto de uma mulher é dificilmente interpretado pelos nossos olhos, que não podem aplicar-se a toda essa superfície movediça, aos lábios, mais ainda, à memória; se nuvens o alteram conforme sua posição social e conforme a altura em que estamos situados, que cortina mais espessa ainda está corrida entre os atos daquela a quem vemos, e suas razões!

Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

Reigning over the worlds in your brain – that's a true prerogative of rational existence…

Hele universet var endegyldigt forsynet med etiketter, ordnet, klassificeret. Frem for alt ikke ræsonnere, ikke tænke, ikke sætte spørgsmålstegn, det ville være det rene tidsspilde, da det alligevel ikke var muligt at nå frem til en anden klassifikation.

Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

Freedom is for the curious ones. Free is the one not influenced by taboos. Free is the one who reasons and evolves continuously, and refuses to accept anything without thinking.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Most of the mistakes are due to allowing emotion to overtake logical thinking and approach. We knew the right thing but did not obey the right.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

Talking with an atheist is like trying to reason with someone who denies the existence of the sun.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

In a word, the basic principle of the Scottish philosophy — that people could reason naturally from the evidence of their own consciousness to the existence of God and the validity of traditional morality — had become very widespread by the early nineteenth century.

We can't just know what we believe; we need to know why we believe what we believe.

As in every other topic, our regular practice as Christians should be to seek God's will in his Word, either by explicit command or by reasoning from principles in the Word. We want to see that the answer is in the Bible.

The key fact to know when somebody goes nuclear is that the person is stuck in attack mode, so rational, reasonable, intelligent conversation won't work. A guy who's throwing a computer at the boss or waving a gun around can't listen to reason, because he can't access the higher thought processes that say "Hey, calm down—this is crazy.