Quotes about Reasoning

A man can protect himself with fists or sword but his best weapon is his intellect.

We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

In almost nine cases out of ten, those who have once had the Faith but now reject it, or claim that it does not make sense, are driven not by reasoning but by the way they are living

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

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.

Like all Holmes's reasoning the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained.