reasoning abilities Quotes

It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.

People who think well, write well

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.