Virginia Woolf Quotes

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Neither table pounding nor dreamy euphoria can be permitted to substitute for plausible argument. If impatience is not to be allowed to short-circuit argument with unsupported assertions, reason must be honored above the crude and noisy enthusiasms and antipathies.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

People who think well, write well

I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.

Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.