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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.
If you step back a little and say we want to do A.I., then you will realize that A.I. needs knowledge, reasoning, and explanation.
Everything that happens inside the cage is very quick and the fighter acts more by reflex than by reasoning.
I have always tried to be clear that my states are stages of justice reasoning, not of emotions, aspirations, or action.
Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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.
I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.
Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact
[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.
The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.
The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.
Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.
All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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.
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.
American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.
Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.
We live in an epoch where rational reasoning associated with evidence isn't universally accepted and is, in fact, in jeopardy. That worries me a lot.
In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.
Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.
Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.
For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.
Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.
Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.
There's an intelligence that goes with being a good cop. Intuitiveness - they have to be actors; they have to have deductive reasoning, knowledge about a great deal of subjects.
Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.
