Reasoning Quotes

445 quotes by 334 authors

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and… — John Cornyn
Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this… — Augustus De Morgan
The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have… — Charles Babbage
Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The MÃ©canique CÃ©leste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in… — W. W. Rouse Ball
For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this… — Thomas Huxley
After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing â€˜moneyâ€™ with â€˜wealthâ€™â€¦Real… — Henry Hazlitt
It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though… — Francis Chan
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. — Oliver Evans
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general… — Christopher Zeeman
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true… — Charles Babbage
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are… — Arthur Schopenhauer
What has reasoning to do with painting? — William Blake
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve,… — Juvenal
How dangerous can false reasoning prove! — Sophocles
Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind,… — Lin Yutang
The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed. — Madame de Stael
We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. — David Hume
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method… — Arlen Specter

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