Reasoning Quotes
445 quotes by 334 authors
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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
— Richard P. Feynman
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[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.
— Charles Dickens
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Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?
— David Foster Wallace
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It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing…
— George Carlin
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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
— Graham Greene
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It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments…
— George Carlin
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We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.
— Peter Kreeft
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Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin…
— Dale Carnegie
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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will…
— Aldous Huxley
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A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.
— Melissa de la Cruz
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She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be…
— Bill Bryson
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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if…
— Isaac Asimov
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Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root…
— Charles Dickens
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially…
— Marcel Proust
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You’re exactly like Charlie. Once you make up your mind, there is no reasoning with you. Of course, exactly like Charlie, you stick by your…
— Stephenie Meyer
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The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind…
— Thomas A. Edison
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If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well…
— Sylvia Plath
Who Wrote These Reasoning Quotes
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