Reasoning Quotes - Page 7

• There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

  Henri Poincare

  Knowledge, Math, Ontology

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• The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

  Samuel McChord Crothers

  Math, Facts, Logic

  The Gentle Reader (p. 183)

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• The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.

  Andrew Jackson

  Acting, May, Influence

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.237

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• God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.

  Henry Blackaby

  Thinking, People, Decision

  Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2001). “Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda”, p.179, B&H Publishing Group

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• You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted upon people, particularly if they like things the way they are - meaning, if their reactions are very simple.  The reason most people behave badly or poorly is because they only understand simple things.

  Jacque Fresco

  Simple, People, Kites

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• Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

  George Polya

  Education, Math, Figures

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• There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Two, People, Listening

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 170, 1951.

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• The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.

  Antonio Damasio

  Art, Memories, Creativity

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• The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Creativity, Brain, Looks

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• Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

  Anthony McGowan

  Thinking, Prejudice, Reason

  Anthony McGowan (2009). “Jack Tumor”, p.141, Macmillan

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• The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Emotional, Quality, Clear

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.26, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Wall, Ignorance

  "The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley, www.theguardian.com. 1954.

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• Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book "The Origin Of Species" he realized that the publication of his revolutionary concept of creation would rock the intellectual and religious worlds. So he became his own critic and spent another 15 years checking his data, challenging his reasoning, and criticizing his conclusions.

  Dale Carnegie

  Religious, Book, Rocks

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• It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.

  George Carlin

  Science, Thinking, Order

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Heart, Thinking

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.138, Image

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• Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

  Joyce Meyer

  Successful, Two, Worry

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• [She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Heaven, May

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• ...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pain, Love You, Heart

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2866, Delphi Classics

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• We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

  Marvin Minsky

  Vision, Robots, Action

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• soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not.

  Charles Bukowski

  Morning, Holiday, Phones

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• Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Sweet, Land

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• There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature through observations, experimentation and reasoning, and the man of sentiment, the man of belief, the man who mourns his dead children, and who cannot, alas, prove that he will see them again, but who believes that he will, and lives in the hope – the man who will not die like a vibrio, but who feels that the force that is within him cannot die.

  Louis Pasteur

  Children, Believe, Men

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• A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Heart, Brain, Wells

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• Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Crazy, People, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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• Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?

  Bill Bryson

  May, Want, Way

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