Reasoning Quotes

445 quotes by 334 authors

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know. — Daniel Tammet
Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires… — Eric Voegelin
Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with — Bob Proctor
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or… — Arthur Koestler
Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every… — Dale Carnegie
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his… — Arthur Schopenhauer
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by… — Hippocrates
Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ... [T]he word "logic"… — John of Salisbury
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the… — Claude Bernard
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. — Aristotle
If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort… — Zhuangzi
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these… — Robert B. Laughlin
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote… — Walter Bagehot
Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes. — Arthur Conan Doyle
What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be… — Thomas Nagel
How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women. — Emmeline Pankhurst
God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he… — Mark Twain
ChÃ©lan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being… — Stendhal

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