Reasoning Quotes
445 quotes by 334 authors
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He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas…
— Julian Barnes
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I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal…
— Jo Nesbo
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in…
— Thomas Hobbes
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If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical…
— Jonathan Haidt
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I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by…
— Dan Simmons
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But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning…
— Alexandra Bracken
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No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
— Nhat Hanh
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If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not…
— Roger Bacon
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It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
— John Stott
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On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia…
— Henry Lawson
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What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example,…
— Marvin Minsky
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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
— Mark Twain
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... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
— James Bryant Conant
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The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering…
— Dalai Lama
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Once you jump in the ocean of love there's nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every hue of it,…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that Divine itself has…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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