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Quotes About Reasoning

Again and again, the book shows how so-called Homo sapiens fail at even the simplest logic problems. But they're fast and fantastic at figuring out who's in and who's out, who's up and who's down, who should be heaped with praise and who must be punished without mercy. Ability to execute simple acts of reason? Feeble. Skill at herding each other? Utterly, endlessly brilliant.
~ Richard Powers
shows how so-called Homo sapiens fail at even the simplest logic problems. But they're fast and fantastic at figuring out who's in and who's out, who's up and who's down, who should be heaped with praise and who must be punished without mercy. Ability to execute simple acts of reason? Feeble. Skill at herding each other? Utterly, endlessly brilliant.
~ Richard Powers
But confirmation bias will always beat out common sense.
~ Richard Powers
Homo sapiens fail at even the simplest logic problems.
~ Richard Powers
Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man and one who'd been raised to accept life's mysteries—the Blessed Trinity, for one instance, a woman's reasoning, for another.
~ Richard Russo
Arithmetic and number theory study patterns of number and counting. Geometry studies patterns of shape. Calculus allows us to handle patterns of motion. Logic studies patterns of reasoning. Probability theory deals with patterns of chance. Topology studies patterns of closeness ans position.
~ Keith Devlin
You want a logical explanation? String the facts together. The scenes.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world – all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.
~ Ken Follett
Soms zou ik ook wel een opvliegend karakter willen hebben,' zei Philip. 'Dat houdt de mensen in beweging. Maar iedereen weet dat ik altijd redelijk ben, daarom word ik nooit zo snel gehoorzaamd als een prior die onverwachts woedend kan uitvallen.
~ Ken Follett
Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge only comes from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.
~ Ken Follett
She tried reason, arguing with herself as much as with him. What's the point of breaking my vow to my father, in order to make a marriage vow to you? If I break the first vow, the second is worthless.
~ Ken Follett
Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.
~ Ken Follett
Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot help to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.
~ Ken Follett
Many of the men in authority in the Soviet Union were careless, lazy, drunk, and just plain stupid. They misunderstood their instructions, they forgot, they approached challenging tasks halfheartedly and then gave up, and sometimes they just decided they knew better. Reasoning with them was useless; charm was worse. Being nice to them made them think you were a fool who could be ignored.
~ Ken Follett
As we saw, Gilligan's work suggested that men tend to reason in terms of autonomy, rights, agency, justice, and ranking; and women in terms of relationship, care, responsibility, communion, and nonranking (with individual men and women capable of any of those across the whole spectrum).
~ Ken Wilber
One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.
~ Albert Einstein
The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.
~ L.E. Modesitt Jr.
For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.
~ Rachel Hartman
You'll never understand how powerful your choices have been or are until the day you ask yourself why you made them.
~ Mduduzi Risimati Mbiza
People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad.
~ William Missouri Downs
We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.
~ William Osler
every time the brain calculates the area of a rectangle, or sight-reads a piece of music, or tests an experimental hypothesis, the neurons involved are chemically changed to make it easier to travel the same path again. Kandel's research seems to have identified that repetition forms the chains that Polanyi called tacit knowing, and that James Watt called "the correct modes of reasoning.
~ William Rosen
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
~ William Shakespeare