Reasonings Quotes
27 quotes by 24 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
— Alexander Hamilton
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The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.
— Peter of Alcantara
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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
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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
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The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand
— Jeremy Bentham
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
— George Eliot
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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
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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
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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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