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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.


Charlotte Perkins Gilman


#amount #any #audiences #better #epigram

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.


Charles Sanders Peirce


#fact #foundation #good #logic #possible

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.


Robin McKinley


#beauty #beauty-and-the-beast #love #reasoning #trust

The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd theologies I have ever in my life heard." ~R. Alan Woods ("Just Keeping It Real", Copyright 2012)


R. Alan Woods


#rationality #reason #reasoning #theology #life

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately. Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.


Mark Twain


#cats #dogs #doves #foxes #geese

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.


Oliver Evans


#any #communication #each #frequently #happens

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.


Alexis Carrel


#gifted #great #great men #intuition #know

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.


George Whitefield


#believe #believed #cannot #carnal #commanded

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.


David Hume


#advantageous #beauty #case #delicate #every

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.


Margaret Mead


#education #judgement #mentoring #reasoning #education






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