Quotes About Reasoning

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

Yes, I believe in equality. But I don't like the word 'feminist,' because it's such a rational belief to think that women are equal to men, and I'm a rational person. You shouldn't be labeled for being reasonable.

In order to reason, you need a network to be able to bring in knowledge from several different areas, such as math, science, and philosophy, to reach reasonable conclusions on what it's been tasked with.

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

And never - not in a single case - was the explanation, 'I was pressured to do this.' The explanation was very often, 'The limited data we had led one to reasonably conclude this. I now see that there's another explanation for it.'

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

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.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.

Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.