#reasoning

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#difference #fuzzy #merely #other #reasoning

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#humble #individual #questions #reasoning #science

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#contingent #fact #impossible #kinds #necessary

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy. ↗

— William John Wills

#art #carefully #converse #deficient #disagreeable

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#act #activities #god #his #human

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#fearing #future #his #life #man

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#body #difference #facts #i #like

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.) ↗

— Carl Sagan

#truth #persistence

There are three people one can never reason with: a drunk, a crazy person, and a fool. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#reason #reasonable #reasoning #r-alan-woods

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#brave #courage #impregnable #mind #reasoning