Top Reasoning Quotes
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
Pope Paul VI
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato
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It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
Ron Wyden 
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To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
Rex Stout
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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
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More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
Paul D. Boyer
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The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.
George Allen
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
James D. Watson
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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
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All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.
Herbert Simon
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Robert A. HeinleinGeorge Henry LewesWilliam Tecumseh ShermanWilliam CowperNicholas LeaGerrit SmithGeorge WhitefieldMary WollstonecraftAlexander HamiltonBrandon RouthRudolf ArnheimPope Paul VIEdward ThorndikeTom ArayaWilliam John Wills
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