Quotes About Reasoning

At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.

I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.

A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.

If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area.

Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.

A 'biomass' man does not use logical and analytical thinking

If I knew what two and two were – I would say Four!

In a world of stupidity a thinking man is insane

Neither wanted to claim that these discoveries "proved" the existence of God. They cautioned that science cannot "prove" anything with absolute certainty.

Darwin read Lyell's magnum opus, The Principles of Geology, on the voyage of the Beagle and employed its principles of reasoning in On the Origin of Species. The subtitle of Lyell's Principles

Robert Heinlein once put it . . . Man is a rationalizing animal not a rational one.

In one test, subjects were presented with contradictory statements made by George Bush and John Kerry. Republicans judged Kerry's flip-flop harshly, while letting Bush off the hook for his. Democrats did the reverse. Interestingly, the brain scans showed that the parts of the brain governing emotion were far more active during the experiment than the reasoning parts.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

A Master Jedi feels emotions, but they do not allow them to influence their reasoning. Yoda told Luke that he would know the good from the bad when he was 'calm, at peace.

Logical thinking can outwit random processing!

A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.

The deduction reached by top modern philosophers on this question is that things exist for two reasons: they are either necessary or they were caused.

Creationists have an argument not with science, but with argument.

The more you turn up the heat rhetorically, the more you weaken your arguments.

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

Part of the power of the ego flows from its command of one's rational faculties.)

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.