Quotes About Reasoning

Atheists have had to resort to wild speculations to give chance more of a chance.

We are so logic-driven that we can't stand the absence of it.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Skeptic's mistake lies in thinking that we should tie our hands behind our backs just because we will not be able to reach rock-hard conclusions.

Der Wirklichkeit ist mit Logik nur zum Teil beizukommen.

I destini, considerati a posteriori, sono logici

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.

But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm.

Reason like a sphere? What type of reasoning does a wooden sphere do?" "The circular type, I should think. And, by coincidence, it is my favorite type as well. Perhaps that's why I'm so good at the game.

Not contradicting a point and proving it are different things.

Integrity doesn't stop men from killing, Brightness," Sebarial said. "It just makes them use different justifications.

Why would you do that?

When we fix the wrong thing for the wrong reason, the same problems continue to surface.

Our fight or flight strategies are effective for survival, not for reasoning or connection

I never reasoned on what I should do, but what I had done; as if my Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

Many of the most frequent fallacies in economic reasoning come from the propensity, especially marked today, to think in terms of an abstraction—the collectivity, the "nation"—and to forget or ignore the individuals who make it up and give it meaning.

The quickest way to detect error in analogy is to carry it out as far as it will go—and further. Every analogy will break down somewhere. Any analogy if carried out far enough becomes absurd.

Another way to find whether an analogy is fallacious is to see whether you can discover a counter analogy. Surely this is the most effective practice in refuting analogy in argument.

La Economía se halla asediada por mayor número de sofismas que cualquier otra disciplina cultivada por el hombre.

post hoc ergo propter hoc

It seemed to her at last that she would do well to take a book; formerly, when heavy-hearted, she had been able, with the help of some well-chosen volume, to transfer the seat of consciousness to the organ of pure reason.

Most of us, in our civilized society, rely too heavily on reasoning capacity to make things happen. We've been raised to believe that logic will prevail. Logic, in and of itself, will rarely influence people. Most often logic doesn't work.

You do not change people's minds by defeating them with logic.