Quotes About Reasoning

I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter.

I look upon the finest logical demonstration the way a sensible girl regards a love letter.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.

Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

A negação nunca sai de um raciocínio mas sim de algo obscuro e antigo. Os argumentos vêm depois, para a justificar e apoiar. Todo o não surge do sangue.

Albert Camus, que en cierta ocasión dijo: «Un hombre con el que no se puede razonar es un hombre al que hay que temer.»

Then--in correcting the entity--do not ever break the entity's will! Reason with the entity, for the mental ability and aspects will incline to make the entity become stubborn, if there is the attempt to force or to cause the entity to act in any direction or manner "just because." Tell [the entity] why!

smart people don't do stupid things for no reason, so one must locate why they are doing something that looks stupid from our point of view but may make sense from their point of view.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)

You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit.

Answer a fool according to his folly.