Quotes by Reasoning True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning. Alain de Botton reasoning stem majority Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. Alfred North Whitehead straws reasoning premises Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong. Ashleigh Brilliant reasoning assumption excellent Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning Bertrand Russell observation reasoning facts All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment. Blaise Pascal reasoning sentiments Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling. Blaise Pascal reasoning sentiments feelings Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all. C. S. Lewis judged reasoning wisdom To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. Christopher Hitchens reasoning Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not? David Foster Wallace infinite-jest reasoning why-not All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning. David Hume inference reasoning effects Logic is one thing and commonsense another. Elbert Hubbard reasoning logic math Whatever you can, count. Francis Bacon reasoning logic math Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning. Fulton J. Sheen reasoning judgment soul It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner. George Eliot reasoning foolish seems Money corrupts the process of reasoning. Lawrence Lessig reasoning process Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience. Leonardo da Vinci reasoning thinker experience The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed. Madame de Stael reasoning careful character there is no reasoning with imagination. Maria Edgeworth reasoning imagination Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It. Oswald Chambers reasoning christianity We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well. Peter Kreeft reasoning wells 12»
