Quotes About Reasoning

Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, - His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies

Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.

In search of wit these lose their common sense

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

If the love and pursuit of literature do not make a man more independent in character, more disinterested in his reasonings, more elevated in his views, they will not have done for him what I should have expected from them.

A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Logic is pointless.

You just have to believe in what you're saying and be able to explain why you said it. There's nothing I say that I can't back up or at least explain why I came to that conclusion, so I'm not afraid of getting in trouble.

Don't confuse evidence with a conclusion.