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Reasonings Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to…
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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,… — Charles Sanders Peirce
- I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree… — Hiram Maxim
- The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings… — 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… — David Hume
- The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth. — Peter of Alcantara
- The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less… — Unknown Author
- It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once,… — Colin Maclaurin
- In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead