Reasonings Quotes

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I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or… — Hiram Maxim
The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the… — David Hume
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous. — Alexander Hamilton
The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth. — Peter of Alcantara
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been versed in the reasonings of… — Euripides
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes… — Hans Sloane
The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand — Jeremy Bentham
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view,… — Colin Maclaurin
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.… — David Hume
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress… — Charles Sanders Peirce
And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute… — Peter Abelard
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking… — Alfred North Whitehead
The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led… — Rene Descartes
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings:… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner. — George Eliot
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and… — Samuel Johnson
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true… — Gottfried Leibniz
No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of… — Charles Henry Mackintosh

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