The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity… — Galileo Galilei 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
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
“Most binds involve metaphors, emotions, feelings, human qualities. Thus, the binds mostly prompt us to be rational, push us to decide one… — Ştefan Serşeniuc 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
If a person is A) poorly, B) receives treatment intended to make him better, and C) gets better, then no power of… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence. — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc.,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Consequentialist theories pretend that we can set some great big ends (the general happiness, human flourishing), provide ourselves with definite enough conceptions… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image