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Source: The Real Faith

“Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.”

Light Subjects Hundred Pursue Certainty Mortals Reasoning Probability

Author:Isaac Watts

“It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.”

Seems Foolish Reasoning

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.”

Should Firsts Art Moments Left Lines Modern Taste Speech Models Logic Importance Vices Reasoning Imitation Spares Finest Antiquity Brevity Oratory Inattention Amplification

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world”

World Would Be Principles Simplicity Reasoning Abandon

Book:Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer

Source: Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer

“No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.”

Men Reasoning Bombs Tigers Kitten Ruthlessness Appeasement Pearl Harbor Day

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.”

Knows Men Littles Facts Politics Party Society Mankind Politician Determined Reasoning Convince

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.”

Imagination Weak Reasoning Proportion Robust

Book:The New Science of Giambattista Vico

Source: The New Science of Giambattista Vico

“The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?”

“The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and since in them nothing occurs without supreme reason-not, to be sure, such as discursive reasoning discovers, but such as existed from the first in the Creators's design and is preserved from that origin to this day in the wonderful nature of animal faculties, I do not believe that even in a snowflake this ordered pattern exists at random.”

Firsts Believe Reason Causes Animal Wonderful Design Shapes Six Plant Patterns Creator Supreme Reasoning Faculty This Day Snowflake Wonderful Nature

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.”

People Mind Heart Spiritual Lost Too Much Contemporary Reasoning Spiritual Life Spoiled

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Money corrupts the process of reasoning.”

Process Reasoning

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.”

Ends Self Reason Evidence Appeals Reasoning

Author:Coventry Patmore

“Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure”

Feelings Memories Pleasure Opinion Class Intelligence Delight Enjoyment Reasoning Desirable Kindred

Author:Socrates

“Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.”

Feelings Imagination Worry Speech Anxiety Absolutes Threat Reasoning Unconscious Anxious Representation Examination Symbolic Facilitate

Author:Willard Gaylin

“As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.”

People Ifs Writing Kind Reason Talking Doctrine Reasoning Convince

Book:Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage

Source: Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage

“The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both.”

Matter Reason Form Used Order Cases Ought Assuming Proof Judgement Reasoning Inquiry Confirmation

Book:Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism

Source: Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism

“By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.”

Would Be Care Products Cost Administration Health Care Reasoning Gym Membership Broccoli Health Care Costs

Author:John Cornyn

“Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.”

Country Eye Science Practice Study Figures Students Perspective Elements Property Obstacles Drawing Planes Reasoning Representation Obliged Geometry Beginners Recourse

Author:Augustus De Morgan

“The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have been applied to the practical purposes of life, until the same powerful genius [Davy] which detected the principle, applied it, by a singular felicity of reasoning, to arrest the corrosion of the copper-sheathing of vessels. ... this was regarded as by Laplace as the greatest of Sir Humphry's discoveries.”

“Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé a voir' [it is easy to see].”

Ifs Science Easy Presses Details Satisfied Conclusion Chains Reasoning Formulas Recurring Insert Revising

Author:W. W. Rouse Ball

“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.”

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley

“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 that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.”

Two Science Principles Virtue Judging Reasoning Contradiction Grounded Contradictory

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.”

Knows Want Life Humans May Doe Reason Whole Order Alive Human Nature Capacity Live Life Reasoning Why Not Entity Nevertheless Reassuring

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

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