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• On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

  Henry Lawson

  Jealousy, Land, Australia

  Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

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• The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.

  Georg Cantor

  Mind, Myopia, Ontology

  "Infinity and the Mind". Book by Rudy Rucker, 1982.

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• What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Knowledge, Experience

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'On History'

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• It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.

  Marvin Minsky

  Knowledge, Expression, Example

  "The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind". Book by Marvin Minsky, 2006.

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• I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
  My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay.
  I will greet this day with love in my heart.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Heart, Making Love

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino. Chapter 9: "The Scroll Marked II," p. 58, 1968.

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• I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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• Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

  Evan Esar

  Science, Math, Statistics

  Esar's Comic Dictionary

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• The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

  Jeremy Bentham

  Political, Different, Economics

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• Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

  John Stott

  Faith, Trust In God, Trustworthiness

  John Stott, John R. W. Stott, Mark A. Noll (2006). “Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life”, p.52, InterVarsity Press

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• Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

  Ayn Rand

  Witty, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.9, Penguin

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Block, Past

  John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

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• With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in fundamentals. Only those who prefer religious faith to beliefs based on reasoning and evidence can still maintain that the human species is the special darling of the entire universe, or that other animals were created to provide us with food, or that we have divine authority over them, and divine permission to kill them.

  Peter Singer

  Religious, Acceptance, Animal

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• Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

  Bob Proctor

  Thinking, Tools, Use

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• Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

  Henri Poincare

  Art, Math, Figures

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Differences, Fuzzy

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.324, Penguin

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• Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Animal, Men, Humanity

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

  Galileo Galilei

  Truth, Inspiration, Independent

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, as translated by Baden Powell, Robert Grant, and William Fairbairn, p. 365, 1859.

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• Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Math, Needs, Ethics

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1933). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics”, Harvard University Press

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• Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Lying, Trying, Physicians

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• That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Lincoln Barnett, Albert Einstein (2005). “The Universe and Dr. Einstein”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

  Will Durant

  Mother, Memories, Tired

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• I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Order, Ontology

  Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

  David Hume

  Inference, Effects, Customs

  "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding". Book by David Hume, V: Skeptical Solution of these Doubts, Part I, 1739 - 1740.

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• From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Math, Water, Logic

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 1) (The Annotated Books)”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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