Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Too must sentiment and no reason, destroys both the path and the pedestrian.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Once you jump in the ocean of love there's nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic… — Marilynne Robinson 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
I start with an image, then I go from the image toward exploring the situation. Then I write a scene, and from… — Dan Chaon 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
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
“By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a… — Hector Avalos Copy Share Image
Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions… — Ziauddin Sardar Copy Share Image
