#reasoning

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

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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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

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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

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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

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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. ↗

— John Locke

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We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Pope Paul VI

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ↗

— Plato

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