Quotes About Deductive Reasoning

#1. I start with an image, then I go from the image toward exploring the situation. Then I write a scene, and from the scene I find the character, from the character I find the larger plot. It's like deductive reasoning - I start with the smaller stuff and work backward.

Dan Chaon

#2. You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.

Rafael Sabatini

#3. Some things cannot be perceived with the five senses; they can only be conceived by the Holy Spirit. Some things cannot be deduced via deductive reasoning; they can only be imagined by the Holy Spirit. Some things cannot be learned by logic; they can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit.

Mark Batterson

#4. Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

#5. Your powers of deductive reasoning are stunning," spits Tobias. "Consider me awed.

Veronica Roth

#6. When the president decides that he knows better than you know what's good for you or your family, we've got trouble in this country.

John Barrasso

#7. The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

Henry Ford

#9. You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

William John Wills

#10. I remember a story about an Irish warrior who killed his son by mistake but when he realised he didn't mind that much because it served the son right.

Max Porter

#11. Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. Thus the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar, perhaps it may in turn so entirely forget it was a butterfly that is becomes a fish.

Soren Kierkegaard

#12. Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

Bertrand Russell

#13. For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

T. R. Knight