Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then… — Moby Copy Share Image
We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in… — Don Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The deep paradox uncovered by AI research: the only way to deal efficiently with very complex problems is to move away from… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
“But if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. We… — Andrey Illarionov Copy Share Image
This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought. 2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue. 3.… — Douglas N. Walton Copy Share Image
It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“The sensible man,' Crow had said (to Sherlock Holmes), 'don't look to confirm what he already knows -- he looks to deny… — Andrew Lane Copy Share Image
“When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it -… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Find the most believable people possible who disagree with you and try to understand their reasoning. Having open-minded conversations with believable people… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
There have been studies done on people who meditate and they have found that they actually have increased grey matter in certain… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed —… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached,… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words ,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“This is not a book of truth, but simply a book that attempts with as little bias as humanly possible, to understand… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Rationalism is imperative in the pursuit of truth, whereas the pursuit of a harmonious global progress demands a human to be simply… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The first questions naturally raised by a person emerging from the fog of childhood are the same questions that led Aristotle and… — Alan E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
We are on the earth, and they tell us of heaven; we are human beings, and they tell us of angels and… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
