Reasoning Quotes
Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.
If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.
Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.
To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.
I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.
How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.
Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.
There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.
Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.
Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.
Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason.
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.
