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Quotes About Reasoning

Never make a threat. Reason with people." The word "reason" sounded so much better in Italian, ragione, to rejoin. The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek.
~ Mario Puzo
But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.
~ Mark Haddon
intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer.
~ Mark Haddon
prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
~ Mark Haddon
But in life you have to take lots of deductions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and why you like others.
~ Mark Haddon
And this shows that intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer.
~ Mark Haddon
And intuition is what people is what people use in life to make decisions.But logic can help you work out the right answer.
~ Mark Haddon
it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.
~ Mark Haddon
People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. But they should think logically and if they thought logically they would see that they can only ask this question because it has already happened and they exist.
~ Mark Haddon
But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.
~ Mark Haddon
post hoc ergo propter hoc…after this, therefore because of this.
~ Mark Leyner
Ama kötülüÄŸün sebebini bulmaya çal??arak t?rnaklar?n kemirmeleri kahkahadan k?r?lmama yol aç?yor kardeÅŸlerim. İyiliÄŸin sebebini arad?klar? yok, öyleyse niye tersini merak ediyorlar ki? (syf. 35)
~ Anthony Burgess
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
~ Anthony de Mello
The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive.
~ Anthony Trollope
Of course, sir; when a man's stomach rises above his intelligence, he'll have to argue accordingly,' said the Senator.
~ Anthony Trollope
To invoke alien law when it agrees with one's own thinking, and ignore it otherwise, is not reasoned decisionmaking, but sophistry.
~ Antonin Scalia
When emotion is entirely left out of the reasoning picture, as happens in certain neurological conditions, reason turns out to be even more flawed than when emotion plays bad tricks on our decisions.
~ Antonio Damasio
Sometimes why is the most important question.
~ April Henry
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
~ Aristotle
It is impossible that there should be demonstration of absolutely everything; [for then] there would be an infinite regress, so that there would still be no demonstration.
~ Aristotle
In a practical syllogism, the major premise is an opinion, while the minor premise deals with particular things, which are the province of perception. Now when the two premises are combined, just as in theoretic reasoning the mind is compelled to affirm the resulting conclusion, so in the case of practical premises you are forced at once to do it.
~ Aristotle
for it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.
~ Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
~ Aristotle
Avoid the enthymeme form when you are trying to rouse feeling; for it will either kill the feeling or will itself fall flat: all simultaneous motions tend to cancel each other either completely or partially.
~ Aristotle