Cognitive Reasoning Quotes

I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

In Quebec, people are moved too often by passion and too little by intelligence.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion has become a matter of the heart and science has become a matter of the mind. This regrettable state of affairs does not reflect the fact that physiologically , one cannot exist without the other. Mind and heart are only different aspects of us.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

Mind and intuition are at opposite ends of the same continuum and our goal is to strike a healthy balance between the two.

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