Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions… — Ziauddin Sardar Copy Share Image
Sometimes I implant thoughts, sometimes I extract thoughts, but I don't like to explain it too much. It's based on science, deduction,… — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether… — David Hume Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. "Wait - he beats women and seems… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together;… — Edward Thorndike 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
“People often assume that science is only about empirical research - that it's merely about facts and figures, which happens to be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, “Suicide is selfishness.” Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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
If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance,… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own… — Augustus William Hare 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 inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say the anthropologists were making art, but they were definitely justifying their practices with very personal reasoning, passion, and they… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not… — George Spencer-Brown Copy Share Image
Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in… — Lee S Shulman Copy Share Image
“a few centuries earlier. At that time the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Logic and reasoning help us solve problems, but too much blue during performance means we overthink and lack the drive to act… — Noel Brick Copy Share Image
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters'… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Beliefs are personal, but universal truths are above that. For example, the surface temperature of the sun is around 5,505 degrees Celsius… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers.… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image