Reasoning Quotes

445 quotes by 334 authors

As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human… — Celia Thaxter
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a… — Eugene Wigner
We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression,… — Antoine Lavoisier
... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the… — David Hume
And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature,… — David Hume
But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for… — Margaret Fuller
People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving. — Peter Salovey
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are… — Blaise Pascal
Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and… — Roy Romer
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true. — C.S. Lewis
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements. — C.S. Lewis
Man is a reasoning Animal. — Seneca the Younger
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. — Paul D. Boyer
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning. — Little Richard
Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills. — Susan Polgar
Think on this doctrine,-that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin… — Marcus Aurelius
For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances. — Francis Ponge
Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of… — Leonard Shlain

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