Quotes about Reasoning

The English philosopher and geometer, Keith Critchlow, brings his own light to the same point: "The human mind takes apart with its analytic habits of reasoning but the human heart puts things together because it loves them . . ."18

Good controversy should not be a quarrel about assumptions

we want to know not merely what his propositions are, but also why he thinks we should be persuaded to accept them.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

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.

Multi oameni, cand incearca sa justifice de ce au sau nu au o anumita credinta, deseori au multe opinii in loc de motive.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result

Your subconscious has access to all the same information your conscious mind receives, but it doesn't reason the way your conscious mind does. It takes everything literally. It doesn't make value judgments. It does not filter or interpret, it simply processes information literally and stores it.

Which should be an excellent reminder that when God tells you to do something, you'd better do it; He always has a reason.

Imagination is biblical reasoning in its Sunday best, lost in wonder at the creativity of the Creator. Being

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith.