Activities Quote by Franz Boas

“This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge.”

— Peter V. Rabins

“Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“He thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an…

— Julian Barnes

“Reasonableness is the byproduct of a scientific mind.”

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

“a few centuries earlier. At that time the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not; and…

— C.S. Lewis

Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always…

— Vilfredo Pareto

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“reasoning is a uniquely human talent. It may have arisen from our need to understand one another’s intentions and motivations. This allowed us to…

— John Medina

“Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up.”

— R. Curtis Venture

“He went on to say that conclusions arrived at through reasoning had very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.…

— Carlos Castaneda

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

— Baruch Spinoza

“Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky