All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact. — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
...the possibility of circular reasoning arises-that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that are then… — Theodore Wilbur Anderson Copy Share Image
“The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.” — Alessandro Volta Copy Share Image
“Brain thrives on assumptions, that ain't the problem, trouble begins when all thought ends at assumption.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“When you leave reasoning & start believing than nothing is reasonable & everything is believable.” — Imran Bughio Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
“If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“We should not expect individuals to produce good, open-minded, truth-seeking reasoning, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in play. But if… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't… — Francis Darwin Copy Share Image
Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“On the SB5 Stanford-Binet intelligence test Isaiah’s reasoning scores were near genius levels. His abilities came naturally but were honed in his… — Joe Ide Copy Share Image
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Knock on the heart’s emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“... for although people can be made worse off by all other gifts, correct reasoning alone can only be for the good.” — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning,… — Jaimal Yogis Copy Share Image
I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image