Quotes About Reasoning

It is not reasonings that are wanted now,' he says, 'for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings. What is wanted, then? The man who shall apply them; whose actions may bear testimony to his doctrines. Assume this character for me, that we may no longer make use in the schools of the examples of the ancients, but may have some examples of our own.

A fool cannot be convinced or even compelled to renounce his folly.

The intellectual cannot operate at room temperature.

only a fool would argue with a fool!

The sort of reasoning that would try a woman for murder if she sought an abortion could well lead to renewed witch-hunts.

Dostarczenie dowodu nale?y do tego, kto wysuwa twierdzenie. JeÅ›li utrzymujÄ™, ?e centaury istniejÄ…, muszÄ™ poprze? swojÄ… tezÄ™. - KtoÅ›, kto nie chce wierzy?, zawsze wynajduje powody. - KtoÅ›, kto chce wierzy?, równie?!

Important as history is, reasoning has to go beyond the past.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

E' da matti consumarsi la vita in storie in cui non credi o i cui credi solo a metà e passare il resto del tempo a costruirsi alibi e ragioni di comodo e paraventi mentali.

philosopher named Descartes

There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is somethings simply because it would be reassuring.

I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think. I could no more simply decide to believe in God than I could decide to like beetroot, just like that.

All I am saying is that if you want to answer a question, then we need to examine and weigh up the evidence. To me, that's not dogmatic that's just... what else would you do?

The first thing you get from the humanities, when they're well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just in universities but in schools as well.

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

I was the straight-A student but sort of a little bit of debating my parents all the time, trying to find when they weren't logically correct.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Benn was brute force, wasn't he? But he found God when he was 40... and the only reason I beat him, was because I was brought up in the church. It teaches you to be calm to be objective and steady and the reasoning I used beat him - and he found it when he was 40. I didn't change anything: there is only one way, to be calm, gentle and true.

If the case is close, 5-4, and let's say you are on the side that prevailed with the majority, there are not a lot of high-fives and back slaps. There is a moment of quiet, a moment of respect, maybe even sometimes awe in the process. We realize that one of us is going to have to write out a decision which teaches and gives reasons for what we do.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.