Reasoning Quotes
445 quotes by 345 authors
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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
— Roger Bacon
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
— Ambrose Bierce
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
— Edmund Burke
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
— Alexis Carrel
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
— Alexis Carrel
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our…
— Alexander Hamilton
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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with…
— August Weismann
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It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that…
— Thomas Paine
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
— Stephen Charnock
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The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always at their original…
— Murray Rothbard
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,…
— Marcel Proust
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Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
— John Mason Brown
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Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
— Carlos Castaneda
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our…
— Karl Popper
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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was…
— Terry Pratchett
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Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.
— Meher Baba
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It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.
— Caroline Myss
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