Appeals Quote by Coventry Patmore Download Open image “All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.” — Coventry Patmore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appeals Ends Evidence Reason Reasoning Self
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
“When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating an internal… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal. — Jean-Philippe Rameau Copy Share Image
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews! — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
“ The Toys My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, —His Mother, who was patient, being dead. Then, fearing lest his grief should hinder sleep, I visited his bed, But found him slumbering deep,… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share
A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has… — Kevin Drum Copy Share
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks! — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
I liked wrestling a lot better than boxing. I remember thinking at that time that wrestling was a pure demonstration of strength, which I… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles, faces and ridges, Is it the name itself which is so tempting, or the picture we have of the mountain itself, or does the appeal come from our feeling of the actual process of climbing? All… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share
I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal. — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church is no… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
