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Quotes About Reasoning

Logika doprowadzi? mo?e jedynie do formalnej prawdy, nie za? materialnej.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
do nauki tej nale?? ogólne prawa myÅ›lenia, którym rozum podlega w chwili, gdy jest pozostawiony samemu sobie, gdy nic mu nie przeszkadza, a wiÄ™c podczas samotnego myÅ›lenia rozumnej istoty, której nic w bÅ'Ä…d nie wprowadza
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?
~ Arundhati Roy
So what was the actual basis for charging Noe?
~ Atul Gawande
The goal is to use explicit, logical, statistical thinking instead of just your gut.
~ Atul Gawande
How can this be justified?
~ Atul Gawande
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.
~ Ayn Rand
There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.
~ Ayn Rand
There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.
~ Ayn Rand
I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
~ Ayn Rand
There are no evil thoughts, Mr. Rearden, Francisco said softly, except one: the refusal to think.
~ Ayn Rand
People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.
~ Ayn Rand
The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind
~ Ayn Rand
A few columns stand out as Adams's; he had not yet perfected his prose style, but he had found his voice. He is calm, deliberative, and precise. He is unassailably logical. The sentences are long; the embrace of the semicolon ardent. He did not revert, as did his contemporaries, to the exclamation point, or to long ribbons of capital letters. He trusted muscular reasoning to stand on its own.
~ Stacy Schiff
But how can I use a method to discredit that very method, if the method is discreditable?
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Temu, kto szukaj?c przyczyny, nie godzi si? z ?adn? hipotez? rozmys?u, ani w jej postaci opatrzno?ciowej, ani diabelskiej, pozostaje tylko racjonalny surogat demonologii – statystyka.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking.
~ Stephen Baxter
The triumph of my logic gives me no pleasure.
~ Stephen Baxter
Intuition he did not reject. He knew that it is part of our equipment, and the sensitiveness he valued in himself and in others is connected with it. But he also knew that it can make dancing dervishes of us all, and that the man who believes a thing is true because he feels it in his bones, is not really very far removed from the man who believes it on the authority of a policeman's truncheon.
~ Stephen Fry
For a year she taught him how to look into the hearts and judge the intentions of others. How to imagine and how to reason. How to find the strength to let passions cool before acting. How to make a plan and how to know when a plan needed to be changed or abandoned. How to let the head rule the heart and the heart win the affection of others.
~ Stephen Fry
taught him how to look into the hearts and judge the intentions of others. How to imagine and how to reason. How to find the strength to let passions cool before acting. How to make a plan and how to know when a plan needed to be changed or abandoned. How to let the head rule the heart and the heart win the affection of others.
~ Stephen Fry
However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
~ Stephen Hawking
Hot?rârile noastre sunt adesea iraÈ›ionale sau se bazeaz? pe o analiz? incorect? a consecinÈ›elor alegerii. De aceea în lume e atâta dezordine.
~ Stephen Hawking
Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.
~ Stephen Hawking