Quotes About Reasoning

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.Come now, and let us reason together… though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.

Feelings accompany the unfolding of life in our organisms, whatever one perceives, learns, remembers, imagines, reasons, judges, decides, plans, or mentally creates.

Memory, language, imagination, and reasoning are leading participants in cultural processes

Walk the paths of logic. Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. Every lock its key.

I had received an answer to the question that Holmes had put to me. Now all I needed to know was why I had asked it.

But at the same time I recalled something Holmes had said to me many times, namely that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers... we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

The deductive reasons for a course of action usually follow rather than precede the course of action. Thought follows life.

Studying Latin can teach you how to think analytically.

How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning!

Men, finding no answers to the sunnan [ten thousand religious questions from the Shari-ah] now apply their own reasoning. All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

The natural human´s an animal without a logic. Your projection of logic onto all affairs is unnatural.

Nikad ne pokušavaj razložno razgovarati s ljudima koji vjeruju da su u pravu.

pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.

Psychologists have suggested we have two systems of thinking, one intuitive and one analytical, both of which can lead us to make serious cognitive mistakes.

My powers of reasoning are incredibly limited; to sense the development in the results, that I can do, but to ascend from the development of the results or step by step to reconstruction it from the results, that is not given to me. It is though as I were falling down upon these things, and caught sight of them only in the confusion of my fall.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'

Part of the bigger problem with Donald Trump is, when you sit and talk to him one-on-one, he's reasonable, he comes across as caring, he's open-minded, but then, all of that just is thrown out the window when he tweets and when he communicates with the media - and when he communicates at all.

My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.