Quotes About Reasoning

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

My approach to deciding cases is I look at the law, I look at the facts, and I do my best to apply the law to the facts and make a decision based on the law and the facts.

What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.

I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that fall within rules.

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

I realize now that this was circular reasoning impregnable to debate.

there is nothing so dangerous as a maxim. —C. J. MAY, "Some Rules of Evidence: Reasonable Doubt in Civil and Criminal Cases" (1876)

Faith was the excuse you used if you didn't have a good argument.

Thinking Fast and Slow.

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things

Strike wondered whether Yasmin had lived in a virtual world of anonymous people for so long that probability and plausibility had fled from her reasoning processes.

A Foundational system serves not so much to prop up the house of mathematics as to clarify the principles and methods by which the house was built in the first place.