Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise.… — Giles Fraser Copy Share Image
Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams… — Thomas Banchoff Copy Share Image
The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc.,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“On the SB5 Stanford-Binet intelligence test Isaiah’s reasoning scores were near genius levels. His abilities came naturally but were honed in his… — Joe Ide Copy Share Image
“Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Logical reasoning may be a most convenient means of mental communication for covering short distances, but the curvature of the earth, alas,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“They can’t help it, you know. It happens in the egg,” she reasoned. “As soon as they grow that genitalia, intelligence goes… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that [Albert] Camus wrote The… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“No one is an outside observer of nature, We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our… — Beau Lotto Copy Share Image
I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we… — Moby Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
“No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
“reasoning is a uniquely human talent. It may have arisen from our need to understand one another’s intentions and motivations. This allowed… — John Medina Copy Share Image
They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me.… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image