Quotes About Reasoning

One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by a madman. A madman, let me tell you, can be very logical. If you are rich and logical and also mad, you can succeed for a very long time in living out your illusion. But in the end....in the end this will break up. Because, you see, it is not reasonable what happens here! That which is not reasonable must always pay the reckoning in the end. ~Dr. Barron

We all have the little grey cells. And so few of us know how to use them.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything!

It is the brain, the little grey cells" — he topped his forehead — "on which one must rely. The senses mislead.

Proof must be solid break walls of facts.

deadly logic is one of the special characteristics of acute mania.

what is often called an intuition is really an impression based on logical deduction or experience.

But what is often called an intuition is really an impression based on logical deduction or experience.

Because, my friend, the more prosaic explanation is nearly always more probable.

Si se estudia un problema con orden y método, no hay dificultad alguna en resolverlo (Hércules Poirot)

methods of Hercule Poirot. I do not run to and fro, making

But me, I am old-fashioned. I use the old methods. I work only with the little grey cells.

ah, sim; temo que nosso amigo de devonshire não tenha usado suas pequenas células cinzentas. mediu as pegadas, mas deixou de refletir e organizar as ideias com a ordem e o método necessários.

If you would use your grey cells, and see the whole case clearly as I do, you too would perceive it, my friend.

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

il faut apprendre, par observation et raisonnement, à reconstituer le vrai des choses d'après les apparences

Silly to you, maybe. All reasons are silly to someone else, and we think the challenges to the books already removed are silly. What makes one person's reason any sillier than another person's reason?

all of us at various times in our lives believe true things for poor reasons, and false things for good reasons, and that whatever we think we know, whether we're right or wrong, arises from our interactions with other human beings. Thinking independently, solitarily, "for ourselves," is not an option.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

To say that a belief is rational is to talk about how it stands in relation to other beliefs

There is no practical rationality then without the virtues of character. The vicious argue unsoundly from false premises about the good, while the akratic ignores the sound arguments available to him. Only the virtuous are able to argue soundly to those conclusions which are their actions […]

it is not just that moral conclusions can not be justified in the way that they once were ; but the loss of the possibility of such justification signals a correlative change in the meaning of moral idioms

Good argument is intended to persuade another.