Quotes About Reasoning

1. Say to the person, "And the reason it's so important to fix this or make this better now is ______________." This fill-in-the-blanks technique requires the person to think of an answer, which opens the door to the reasoning (human) parts of the brain.

before you tackle the bruising challenge of talking to "crazy," make sure you have a good reason to go there.

Your brain has three layers that evolved over millions of years: a primitive reptile layer, a more evolved mammal layer, and a final primate layer. They all interconnect, but in effect they often act like three different brains—and they're often at war with each other.

According to this new evidence, most of our thinking (including our moral judgment) is not a pristinely rational process in the traditional sense, and therefore reasoning is not a bloodless, emotionless, purely formal logical process. Instead, we need an intact and functioning emotional apparatus in order for our reason to have any possibility of operating appropriately in a given situation.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

There is no logic in logics except an illogical logic.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

There is one answer that is correct above all reasoning. And the answer is love not fear.

The mind uses logic, the heart just doesn't understand stuff like that.

You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims.

Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why.

Bad logic was an early warning sign for prejudice.

By mistreating the source of all logic we can enforce shortcuts.

There is a moment when the dead man, too, cancels further revision of the impure. Thus, the dead man is a postscript to closure. The dead man is also a form of circular reasoning, the resident tautologist in an oval universe that is robin's-egg-blue to future generations. Perhaps it's so not important that the dead man lives. After all, the dead man deserts the future.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

The reasoning behind the new law was that if liquor was made legal, we'd have fewer accidents.

My mind reasons that there's nothing to be afraid of, but something inside me I can't control reacts differently.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

as astronomer Carl Sagan once aptly put it, you do not want to keep your mind so open that your brain is likely to fall out.

the nature of the world (and by extension, one's place in it) and the nature of human reasoning (including when it fails, as it so often does).