Reasoning Quotes - Page 6

• The solution of every problem is another problem

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Math, Logic, Problem

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• That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophy, Math, Facts

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.24

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• 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

  Honesty, Father, Compassion

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• I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

  Little Richard

  Fame, Reason, Lost

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• Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Thinking, Men, Justice

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

  Francis Ponge

  Heart, Ideas, Mind

  Francis Ponge, Beth Archer Brombert (1972). “The voice of things”

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• Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of the myriad of forms to only two was the ultimate in dualistic reasoning. Christianity adopted dualism when it created the strict division between good and evil and heaven and hell.

  Leonard Shlain

  Two, Evil, Heaven

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• He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Confusion, Ontology, Doe

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• Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

  Daniel Tammet

  Motivation, Inspiration, Shapes

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• The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Drawing, Effort, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 240), 1895.

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• Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.

  Eric Voegelin

  Philosophy, Spring, Philosophical

  Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.273, University of Missouri Press

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• Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

  Bob Proctor

  Thinking, Tools, Use

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• Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Math, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.163

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• The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Maturity, Men, Eight

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.47, 谷月社

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• To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.

  Benjamin Graham

  Safety, Body, Investment

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• When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

  Rene Descartes

  Love, Dream, Ontology

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• Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

  Henri Poincare

  Art, Math, Figures

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• The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.

  Paul Dirac

  Math, Practice, Data

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• Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

  Margot Asquith

  Stupid, Math, Piano

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• He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

  Confucius

  Math, Logic, Problem

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• I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

  Winston Churchill

  Math, Feelings, Let It Go

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Logic, Theory

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• I think I think, therefore I think I am.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Math, Thinking, Logic

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• In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

  Francis Crick

  Math, Lazy, Logic

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• Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Math, Needs, Ethics

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1933). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics”, Harvard University Press

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