Quotes About Logical Reasoning

#1. I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Paul D. Boyer

#3. Criticism, I said, is an attempt to find the weak spots in a theory, and these, as a rule, can be found only in the more remote logical consequences which can be derived from it. It is here that purely logical reasoning plays an important part in science.

Karl Popper

#4. God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.

Adolf Hitler

#6. My eyes narrowed. I didn't like his logical reasoning.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

Tadao Ando

#8. If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.

Dalai Lama

#9. Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

Greg McKeown

#10. On the Logical Reasoning, ask the speaker: Oh yeah, asshole? What evidence do you have for that position?

Nathan Fox

#11. Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.

Jean Piaget

#12. Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs.

D.T. Suzuki

#13. What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#14. My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.

Orson Scott Card

#15. Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the scenic route.

Rachel Held Evans

#16. What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?

Kazuya Minekura

#17. no matter how many times you move or how big and fancy your house gets, you're still stuck with yourself.

D.M. Pulley

#18. Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.

Abraham Lincoln

#19. When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Bertrand Russell

#20. Anything, anything at all can be logical. For something to be logical, it just has to be a valid example of reasoning from some set of premises.

Mark C. Chu-Carroll

#21. But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#22. What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. When I was born it was Simon who they'd put once more into his arms, the dream of a child he could mold in his own image. It certainly wasn't me, a half-baked attempt at life, a rough sketch showing no familiar traits whatsoever.

Philippe Grimbert

#24. He thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it.

Julian Barnes

#25. If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Vannevar Bush

#26. Every word written is a victory against Death.

Michel Butor

#27. I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism.

Barack Obama

#28. Circular reasoning is infallible even if not exactly logical, and
this is why so many of us so often resort to it - not so much to
resolve baffling problems, but to be absolved of the obligation
to worry about them.

Zygmunt Bauman

#29. Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#30. Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn't. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn't.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#31. That is God's way. He upsets everything and loves to annoy the vain most of all.

Judith Merkle Riley

#32. Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

Susan Polgar

#33. A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.

Gilbert N. Lewis