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Letter "R" » reasoning
«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»
Author: James D. Watson
| About:
Evolution,
Principles,
Religion
| Keywords:
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«Women prefer emotions to reasoning»
Author: Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal)
(Biographer, Novelist)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
emotions, prefer, reasoning
«The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.»
Author: Arthur Koestler
| Keywords:
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«The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
clarity, fog, fogs, impenetrable, inflate, inflated, inflates, inhibit, inhibited, inhibiting, inhibits, intimidates, intimidating, obscure, obscures, obscurest, reasoning
«Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Arguments,
Dreams,
Humanity,
Knowledge,
Truth
| Keywords:
arguments, reasoning
«Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, - His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies»
«Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies»
«The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.»
«The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost their power of reasoning»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
lost, power, reasoning, religion, truths, Truth by Reason, understood, well
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