Quotes About Reasoning

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does away with ideas of things and will not admit that every individual thing has its own determinate idea which is always one and the same, he will have nothing on which his mind can rest; and so he will utterly destroy the power of reasoning.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

Although Buddhism can be practiced "religiously," in many respects, it isn't really a religion. Because of its emphasis on questioning and working with the mind, it is spiritual in nature. But because it relies on logical analysis and reasoning, as well as on meditation, many Buddhist teachers regard Buddhism as a science of mind rather than a religion.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

Orang Cendekia sudah harus adil sejak dari pikiran

Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense.

Better to be without dialectic rather than without thinking.

The (24 Carat) level of the quality of dealing with the ideas rather than events remains an interesting question for future research, as does the question of how analogical reasoning can be applied to skyrocket individual decision making.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

The mind controlled by lust has an infinite capacity for rationalization.

In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Whatever power it is that I have, it's nothing compared to the power of stupidity. That was and remains my reasoning, even though I could have taken the opportunity to live an idyll here of easeful impotence.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

I loved the idea that biology was logical.

To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other.

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

I firmly believe that if science proves scriptures wrong, then the scriptures should be changed. The Buddha himself says that understanding must come through investigation logic and reasoning. Not just faith.