“It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
“But there is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Circular reasoning is infallible even if not exactly logical, and this is why so many of us so often resort to it—not… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing… — Henry Hazlitt 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
“They say that animals are incapable of feelings and reasoning. This is false. No living thing on earth is void of either.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Reasoning is the fourth step of the SMART process after the information is analyzed. William Atkinson, in his 1909 book the Art… — Brian Ledger Copy Share Image
And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over… — George Saunders 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
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
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
“Religion is a subject which, if the believers used the same "reasoning" to address problems at work as they use to defend… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
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
The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Our hearts and minds are more complicated than that, with layers on layers of reasoning and feelings and motivation. There’s always another… — Staci Hart Copy Share Image
We probably could more successfully resolve the North Korean nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. We could successfully resolve what American leaders seem… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
“Modern society is modern because of its mental cocktail of reasoning and compassion. Turn the compassion network in the brain off, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture -… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable - when the fatal iron gates are about to close… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
So this is my attempt to give a preliminary - probably far too crude - account of how philosophy by showing can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
