Quotes with reasoning

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  • James H. Robinson Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Anthony de Mello People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Albert Einstein 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 - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Benjamin Graham The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
    Storage and Stability Preface, p. vii
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.
    Leviathan (1651) XV
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bumper Sticker There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.
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  • Will Durant Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Jeremy Collier True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita We probably could more successfully resolve the North Korean nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. We could successfully resolve what American leaders seem to perceive as an Iranian nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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