Quotes About Reasoning

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

The trouble with logic is that its relationship with reality is usually obscure.

Only irrational fools would consistently and practically deny that 2 + 2 = 4. Not only is the answer to this equation a part of common sense, it is easily demonstrable and highly useful.

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

Identify the assumptions implicit in your own logic," Grayson said, clearly citing a dictate he'd been taught. "Then negate them.

Provable truths are what we need.

Juliet klapte in haar handen. 'Heb jij eigenlijk ooit wel eens een bevel opgevolgd?' 'Het was een soort non-bevel en ik volg trouwens alleen bevelen op als ze redelijk zijn.' - Holly

What? Now?' 'Yes. Now.' Kamar paced the tiny living room. 'That is crazy. Completely insane. Fowl cannot be here for a couple of days at the earliest. There's no need for us to spend two days breathing in that poison. What is the reasoning?' Mikhael extended the phone. 'You tell him. I'm sure the Menidzher will appreciate being told he is a madman.' Kamar

Maybe if we're living in the middle of a development with plenty of witnesses, then Hooke might settle down some and back off. Squib's warped reasoning was based on a child's understanding of evil men. He couldn't know that specimens like Regence Hooke didn't get settled down; they got riled up.