Quotes About Reasoning

Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully reasonable explanation for it? It was that understanding that kept him from watching and being able to enjoy films and television shows about detectives. He found them unrealistic in their delivery of what the general audience wanted: all of the answers.

Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

But absence of proof is not proof of absence.

The essence of verification is multiple lines of reasoning that converge at a single point.

How then do we know Jesus?  We know Him in worship together, in study together, in reflection together and in reasoning together.

To achieve a just society we have to reason together about the meaning of the good life, and to create a public culture hospitable to the disagreements that will inevitably arise.

There was so much confusion about the different terms," said Charlie. "In the course of trying to figure it out, we realize that there's a reason why it doesn't quite make sense to us. It's because it doesn't quite make sense." The

He found a book called Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason.

don't be an ape! Think for yourself along rational lines. Hypothesize, test against the evidence, never accept that a question has been answered as well as it ever will be.

Cuando no tenemos evidencia concreta, utilizamos correctamente las probabilidades básicas; cuando disponemos de evidencia concreta pero inútil, no se tienen en cuenta las probabilidades básicas

You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand that. We believe -- believed -- that happiness was a natural condition of reasoning beings.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter

I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.

Proof by analogy is fraud.

Always be suspicious or of course: of course is not a reason.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.