Quotes About Reasoning

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any field of human enquiry whatsoever.

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to look.

At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

When you hear hoof beats, think horses before you think zebras.

You have a decision to make and right now too little information for making it." By chance or instinct, she had hit on the type of reasoning that could move my grandfather