Quotes About Reasoning

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

All proofs rest on premises.

Whatever cannot be seen, conceived at once, thru simple reasoning is humbug, and not science!

One of my prescriptions for slow political thinking is to try to avoid telling yourself, "I'm reasonable, they're not." Instead, I would suggest the following rule of thumb. The only person you are qualified to pronounce unreasonable is yourself.

I think that both camps are guilty of underestimating the challenge of arriving at economic understanding. Those economists who claim the mantle of science are guilty of hubris. Noneconomists who think that their own intuition is superior to economic reasoning are dangerously misguided.

The only person you are qualified to pronounce unreasonable is yourself.

You know my methods, Watson.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

The fascination about being a judge is the same about the duty of being a judge, and that is to ask yourself, Why am I about to rule the way I am about to rule? You must always ask yourself that question.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

God does things that fly completely in the face of what we've all been taught that He is supposed to do and every time He does this, we all just say, 'Oh, well, I guess there must be some good reason why He did that.'

It's both difficult and hard at the same time to deal with them, and there's hardly any reason for it.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

We possess scientific knowledge today to precisely the extent that we have decided to accept the evidence of the senses – to the extent that we have learned to sharpen and arm them and to think them through to their conclusions.

In almost nine cases out of ten, those who have once had the Faith but now reject it, or claim that it does not make sense, are driven not by reasoning but by the way they are living

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.

The familiar would of sense experience is not entirely objectively real, but is to some extent a product of the scientists' reasoning.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.