The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning. — Ludwig von Mises 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 all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of… — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the effects of our actions, especially our collective actions over generations or centuries, to use instrumental reasoning toward these… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the… — John Piper 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
“With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments. With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Every single human being is neurologically predisposed to be biased in various walks of life. It is biologically impossible to be absolutely… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that… — Nirmala Srivastava 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
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration… — Charles Lyell 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
This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought. 2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue. 3.… — Douglas N. Walton Copy Share Image
“Reason is flawed, but how badly? How should success or failure in reasoning be assessed? What are the mechanisms responsible? In spite… — Hugo Mercier Copy Share Image
It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Constitution of souls is beyond the comprehension of science. This is beyond reasoning.….faith starts where reasoning ends. Science of souls begins where… — Girdhar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and… — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
“We are built to act first and reason later. Our minds construct rational stories to justify emotional truths that our bodies have… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our… — Antonio Machado 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
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“He gave up. It was no use. She wasn’t listening. He was finding himself in a situation as old as mankind itself:… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a conscientious soul is to bring the truth into action, not to speak about it without thinking about the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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