I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. Plato Greek Philosopher More Plato Quotes 4
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein German Physicist More Albert Einstein Quotes 1
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes. William T. Sherman More William T. Sherman Quotes 1
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. Will Durant American Historian More Will Durant Quotes 0
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. Charlotte Perkins Gilman American Writer More Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes 0
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. Lyndon B. Johnson American President More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes 0
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. Robert A. Heinlein American Writer More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes 0
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates. Robert B. Laughlin American Physicist More Robert B. Laughlin Quotes 0
On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account. Henry Lawson Australian Writer More Henry Lawson Quotes 0
It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it. Nicholas Lea Canadian Actor More Nicholas Lea Quotes 0
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. Gottfried Leibniz German Philosopher More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes 0
The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions. George Henry Lewes English Philosopher More George Henry Lewes Quotes 0
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. David Hume Scottish Philosopher More David Hume Quotes 0
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. John Locke English Philosopher More John Locke Quotes 0
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. Pope Paul VI Italian Clergyman More Pope Paul VI Quotes 0
Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. Charles Sanders Peirce More Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes 0
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei Italian Scientist More Galileo Galilei Quotes 0
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. Alexander Hamilton American Politician More Alexander Hamilton Quotes 0
I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam. Bill O'Reilly American Journalist More Bill O'Reilly Quotes 0
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. Blaise Pascal French Philosopher More Blaise Pascal Quotes 0
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. Ayn Rand Russian Writer More Ayn Rand Quotes 0
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. Alexis Carrel French Scientist More Alexis Carrel Quotes 0
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. Alexis Carrel French Scientist More Alexis Carrel Quotes 0
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous. George Allen American Politician More George Allen Quotes 0