Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on…

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“It is not reasonings that are wanted now for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings. What is wanted, then? The man who…

— Epictetus

“reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity…

— David Hume

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

— Mark Twain

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and…

— Immanuel Velikovsky

These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had…

— Rene Descartes

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

— John Fowles

For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise…

— Herman Boerhaave

when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except…

— Kathie Lee Gifford

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence…

— Will Durant

I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined…

— Frank J. Tipler

There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting…

— Eric Hoffer

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

— Auguste Comte