Quotes About Reasoning

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut

Another book gives the illusion of scientific precision by working out this reasoning in a mathematical formula using a "Mental Performance Ratio (MPR)

I discovered, though unconsciously and insensibly, that the pleasure of observing and reasoning was a much higher one than that of skill and sport. The primeval instincts of the barbarian slowly yielded to the acquired tastes of the civilized man.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

We are always more confident of our reasoning than we should be. Indeed overconfidence, not just expert overconfidence but general overconfidence, is one of the most common illusions we experience. No doubt this analysis is yet another example: do we really know any of this?

Tell me, Lothaire, I want to know. Convince me why I should love you." "Because any other female would!

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon

No man can use his brain to think for another.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.