Quotes About Reasoning

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

You don't understand the things I do, but I do have my reasons. They're not your reasons, so they're not real to you, but they're real to me, and that's enough.

There is an intimate connection between our moral life and our intellectual life. Sometimes I think the history of our times can be described as an argument about whether or not this connection is true.

But "common sense is not faith," Oswald Chambers had written, "and faith is not common sense.

Often adults fail to realize that they simply can't reason with a toddler and thus they spend more time talking than acting. No matter how well you use them, words are often little more than sounds to young children. Actions, like removing a child from a forbidden temptation by picking him up and carrying him to another location, provide an unmistakable message.

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' That's Spock in Star Trek VI, but he's paraphrasing Sherlock Holmes.

I think we have to consider every possibility. 'When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Any belief that cannot be defended by logic, proof or evidence is protected by hurt feelings and if needed expressed by violence.

en eso consiste la vida civilizada: en aprender a convivir de manera razonable con la frustración.

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because