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#reasoning

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What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.


Lyndon B. Johnson


#argument #believe #brilliant #case #chain

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

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.


Rex Stout


#based #believe #decisions #different #different thing

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

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

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason. I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears.


Erich Fromm


#conflict #empathy #erich-fromm #humility #love

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.


Franz Boas


#actual #also #apparently #application #brought

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.


Christopher Smart


#flowers #peculiarly #poetry #reasoning #sound

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.


Gerrit Smith


#advocacy #amongst #any #doctrines #feel






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