“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;” — David Hume Copy Share Image
“No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase "of course" or its equivalent.” — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree… — Hiram Maxim Copy Share Image
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on… — Raymond A. Spruance Copy Share Image
“Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“You need an argument, and the nature of any argument is that its validity doesn't depend on who you are. [...] When… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces: If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
In regard to the divine and holy mysteries of the faith, not the least part may be handed on without the Holy… — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
“Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Deductive reasoning, the bedrock of the scientific method, begins with a new theory which leads to a prediction (a hypothesis). The real… — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
“You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Reasoning with a two-year-old is about as productive as changing seats on the Titanic.” — Robert Scotellaro Copy Share Image