Reasoning Quotes · Page 5

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true…

— Catharine Beecher

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

— Rene Descartes

To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the…

— Thomas Jefferson

We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being…

— Thomas Reid

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet…

— Woodrow Wilson

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other…

— Henry Lawson

I had always been very rational, but I'd always used reason in such a way as to convince myself that reasoning alone…

— Goswami Kriyananda

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the…

— Vannevar Bush

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist…

— Sydney J. Harris

For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.…

— Thomas Huxley

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not…

— Nhat Hanh

[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings…

— Rudolph Schoenheimer

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

— Nathanael Emmons

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

— Elbert Hubbard

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

— Evan Esar

The most superficial fact regarding the 'Discourses,' the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's…

— Leo Strauss

All of the great leaders down through history have told us we become what we think about. In fact, they have been…

— Bob Proctor

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

— Henri Poincare

My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered…

— Jonathan Haidt

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by…

— Felix Klein

The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to…

— Charles Babbage

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers.…

— Ada Lovelace

“At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.”

— Herman Melville