392 Quotes About Reasoning

There's more to science than facts and figures.

I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than ThatBen Goldacre

... for although people can be made worse off by all other gifts, correct reasoning alone can only be for the good.

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

In a war, both sides genuinely believe that they are on the side of righteousness, yet no righteousness ever shows them the futility of the very war they are fighting. Because, both sides are driven by the instinctual force of nationalist patriotism. So, think of the countless wars that have caused gallons and gallons of bloodshed, all because warriors on both sides were incapable of reasoning due to the cognitive blindness caused by nationalism.

Like pretty much every debate, an argument is an explosion caused by the collision of egos.

Modern society is modern because of its mental cocktail of reasoning and compassion. Turn the compassion network in the brain off, and it will be a society of heartless robots. On the other hand, turn the reasoning network off, and it will be a society of dumb sentimental apes.

The sign of a sage is to have more questions than answers.