Reasoning Skills Quotes

“A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot card readers.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The greatest Church is within you, and it is made of love, courage and conscience.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“People fight over religion, because they don't understand religion. They think reading a few Bibles, Qurans and Vedas makes them religious. Books are not religion my friend. Real religion is realization of the Self.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Nourish your reasoning skills my friend, they are the most effective tool you can ever have in the path of progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas

“I believe it’s called ‘irrational reasoning.’ It’s what happens to people when they’re scared”
― Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear

“The moment the religious population of the world begins to see the prophets what they really were - mortal teachers of the mortal world, a great portion of the world's religious conflicts shall vanish into thin air.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission

“Reasoning is hard to practice compared to the capacity of sentiments, but when practiced, it opens up new gateways of perception.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana

“Personal reason is admittedly a meager asset, but take away human reason and we would exist in a world of utter ignorance and perpetual darkness.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be the practice in law, but it is not the usage of reason.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“A person who takes a gun holds it to somebody’s head, and intimidates them for money or take their property from them. The person who gets into an argument and his only resort is to take a gun or some offensive weapon and eliminate the other person. I understand that many of these persons do not have reasoning skills. They do not have the basic conflict management skills, to resolve basic issues between themselves and others. So they resort to what they know best, which is violence. I’m talking about the animalistic instinct. Former Assistant Commissioner of Police with the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Mr. Hulan Hanna.”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“It is an utter insult towards the fascinating neurons of your cerebral cortex, to believe anybody’s words blindly, even if that person is a Scientist or a Philosopher. So, I urge to you, that you must exercise your own reasoning and judgment (that’s what your cerebral cortex is for; to be specific the frontal lobes) at all times.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Any scripture that demands irrefutable obedience must be discarded at once.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather in the mind of humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long. Jihad or Holy war would keep festering one way or another, until religious fundamentalism is eradicated from the human society. Until the whole humanity learns to scrutinize its most revered scriptures with the sharp tool of reasoning, Jihad will keep on striking over the world. If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to kill or torture another being for holding a different belief system than one's own, then that entity is no being of the civilized human society, it is merely a pest from the stone-age. No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self. There shall be hope for harmony and peace in the world, only when fundamentalism is destroyed forever. Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have to be sacrificed, then be it. But for no Bible, Quran or Gita, can harmony be compromised.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Reasoning is that voice of wisdom that speaks to you right before you speak. But it's so low, that you would have to listen inwardly to hear it.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“Reasoning is the cure for superstitions and bigotry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Conscience over Nonsense

“Ancient relics belong in museum, not in driver's seat. It's for the young of head 'n heart to get the society lit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Philosophical arguments are either valid or invalid. They aren’t true – or false for that matter. Only the premises (and the conclusion), which are factual claims about the world, can be true or false. Confusingly perhaps, a philosophical argument can be valid even if its premises are false. Philosophers call such arguments valid but “unsound.” Informal, everyday arguments tend to mix up premises and conclusions, and often in the process the distinction between true facts based on evidence and not necessarily true opinions (conclusions) based on reasoning gets lost.”
― Martin Cohen, Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies