I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written… — Edwina Findley Copy Share Image
The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“People often assume that science is only about empirical research - that it's merely about facts and figures, which happens to be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“Logical reasoning may be a most convenient means of mental communication for covering short distances, but the curvature of the earth, alas,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
“What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
You’re exactly like Charlie." She'd sighed, resigned. "Once you make up your mind, there is no reasoning with you. Of course, exactly… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Leaping to conclusions is what we always do in inductive reasoning, but we generally only call it that when the process fails… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather in the mind… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know. — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge.” — Peter V. Rabins Copy Share Image
