Reasoning Skill Quotes

Use your logick, and then your rhetorick. Rhetorick without logick, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet I confess more are taken with rhetorick than logick, because they are catched with a free expression, when they understand not reason. Logick must be natural, or it is worth nothing at all: Your rhetorick figures may be learned.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance the formation and understanding of abstract relations, so much so that people often wake having solved a problem that was unsolvable the night before.