In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Always reason behind the reason even if we dont know what the reason, but it will soon become clear asto why the… — cherubEagleEyes Copy Share Image
The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the… — Charles Henry Mackintosh 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
... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once,… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
“Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed —… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
