Quotes About Reasoning

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning....

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

nobody ever said smart people had to be sane, and nobody ever said that intelligence has to be paired with wisdom.

My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me: Tell me the final number.

All their Immanuel Kants together couldn't do it! It didn't enter the heads of all their Kants to build a system of scientific ethics, that is, ethics based on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.

I had long ago banished a few words from my dictionary: never, always, forever, words that equate one day to another, one moment to another. Time is capricious. To say never or always or forever is a childish way to reason with caprice.

Recognizing that the reasoning individual is far more likely to be carried away by some worthless passing fashion than he is to discover a new and valuable truth, they prefer to uphold ideas and behaviors that have been tested for generations and have stood their ground. And where they introduce alterations, they do so according to the method of constructive reasoning.

Common Sense is a science, whatever may be said; according to Yoritomo, it does not blossom naturally in the minds of men; it demands cultivation, and the art of reasoning is acquired like all the faculties which go to make up moral equilibrium.

Experience itself depends on memory, which permits us to recall facts and to draw our conclusions from them, on which facts reasoning is based.

Reasoning is the art of fixing the relativeness of things. "It is by means of reasoning that it is possible to differentiate events and to indicate to what category they belong. "It is the habit of reasoning to determine that which it is wise to undertake, thus permitting us to judge what should be set aside.

What is the difference between describing 'how' and explaining 'why'? To describe 'how' means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from one point to another. To explain 'why' means to find causal connections that account for the occurrence of this particular series of events to the exclusion of all others.

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.

There's insanity on both sides of the debate when you argue with an idiot.

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles

If your little savage were left to himself and to his native blindness, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion—he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.

Stephanie had no problem doing what she was told, just so long as she was given a good reason why she should.

It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?