#reasoning

Sometimes, humor makes more sense than reasoning. ↗

— Toba Beta

#make-sense #reasoning #humor

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#amount #any #audiences #better #epigram

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#fact #foundation #good #logic #possible

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#directly #discovery #effectively #error #false

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason. I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#conflict #empathy #erich-fromm #humility #love

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#act #activities #god #his #human

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

— Plato

#ever #hardly #i #known #mathematician

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#fearing #future #his #life #man

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#approaches #basic #reasoning #three

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#argument #believe #brilliant #case #chain