Reasoning Quotes - Page 25

• It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.

  Cathy O'Neil

  People, World, Winner

  Source: www.salon.com

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• One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. "Wait - he beats women and seems like a Nazi, but he has impeccable grammar and keen reasoning skills and sings country music and can, from time to time, say or do something really funny?" It absolutely doesn't compute for them. I enjoy that immensely.

  Jim Goad

  Country, Skills, Careers

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

  Jane Austen

  Math, Approval, Logic

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.145, BookCaps Study Guides

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• [Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they weren't all powerful, that history could always be wrong about man. Today, this is how we are starting to think.

  Catherine Camus

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that [Albert] Camus wrote The Rebel, in 1955, there comes the rupture, and all, nearly all of the left wing intellectuals become hostile to him. Since he was already unfavourably viewed by the right-wing, he found himself entirely alone.

  Catherine Camus

  Wings, Political, Rebel

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

  Richard Dawkins

  Responsibility, Moral, Humans

  Source: inters.org

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• Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Practice, Mind

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted to do in the way of withholding judgment until all the facts are in, and then judging impartially on the merits of the case as well as he can. ... Why not a course in Sherlock Holmes? The detectives, or at least the detective-story writers, join with the scientists in excoriating "dogmatic prejudice, lying, falsification of facts, and data, and willful fallacious reasoning."

  Anthony Standen

  Attitude, Lying, Science

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• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 2, sect. 2

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• Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Math, Technique, Add

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• Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not get seduced by the apparent elegance of argument from parsimony; this line of reasoning has failed in the past at least as many times as it has succeeded.

  David Eagleman

  Past, Razors, Lines

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.177, Canongate Books

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• Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé a voir' [it is easy to see].

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Science, Details, Easy

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• By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

  John Cornyn

  Administration, Would Be, Cost

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• The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both.

  Sextus Empiricus

  Order, Judgement, Inquiry

  Sextus (Empiricus.) (1993). “Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism”

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• As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

  Catharine Beecher

  Writing, Talking, People

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.206

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• If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sexy, Memorable, Math

  "Sudden Death". Book by Rita Mae Brown, 1983.

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• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Sarcastic, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, Math, Wish

  Cool Memories Chapter 4

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• The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Two, Errors, Religion

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.178, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility.

  Anthony Standen

  Humility, Science, Numbers

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• [My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns for all the Harvard profs because they were buffaloed by that kind of reasoning. Professors in the economics department, even they knew nothing about it.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Law, Return

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Knowing, Miracle

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Artist, Men, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Doubt, Fields

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.10, Vintage

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• Tout notre raisonnement se re  duit a'   ce  der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

  Blaise Pascal

  Feelings, Sentiments

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