Reasoning Quotes

• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Address to Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 27 Jan. 1921

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• Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

  Voltaire

  Faith, Spiritual, Cancer

  'Questions sur l'Encyclopèdie'

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• You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Worry, Investing

  "The Best Advice I Ever Got". Interview with Julia Boorstin, archive.fortune.com. March 21, 2005.

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  To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

  Thomas Paine

  Funny, 4th Of July, Medicine

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• Feeling is the voice of the body; reasoning is the voice of the mind; conscience is the voice of the spirit.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Voice, Feelings, Mind

  Kenneth E. Hagin (1992). “The Real Faith”, Faith Library Publications

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• All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

  C. S. Lewis

  Miracle, Being True, Humans

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• When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Intuition, Logic

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• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

  Lord Dunsany

  Taken, Math, Statistics

  "My Ireland". Book by Lord Dunsany (Chapter XIX: Weeds and Moss), 1937.

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• We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

  Peter Kreeft

  Wells

  Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli (2009). “Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics”, p.9, InterVarsity Press

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• Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people

  LeCrae

  People, Upset, Finding Yourself

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• We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Betrayal, Hate

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• The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Ideas, Judgement, Mind

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• Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Math, Noble

  Charles Baudelaire (1992). “Selected Writings on Art and Literature”, Penguin Classics

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• Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

  John Locke

  Math, Proof, Diamond

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• He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

  Confucius

  Math, Logic, Problem

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• I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Logic, Theory

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• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  Martin Rees

  Science, Vastness, Ontology

  Quoted in Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, rev. ed., ed. B. M. Oliver and J. Billingham (1973). An earlier version by A. R. Burn appeared in a book review by Burn in The Classical Review, June 1969: "absence of evidence is not identical with evidence of absence."

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• You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Heart, Law

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.164, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Thinking, Two

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• Man is a reasoning Animal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Animal, Men, Law

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger, Letter XLI: On the god within us, line 8,

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• If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!

  Zhuangzi

  Effort, Understanding, Taoism

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• Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Math, Logic, One Thing

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

  Warren Buffett

  Facts, Reason, Hypothesis

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• If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.

  Dalai Lama

  Selfish, Logical Reasoning, Goal

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Language, Mathematics, Plus

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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