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#reasoning

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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.


Edgar Rice Burroghs


#becomes #brain #conversations #direction #faculties

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


#any #australia #australians #between #england

It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.


Nicholas Lea


#behind #fun #just #play #reasoning

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.


Blaise Pascal


#feeling #our #reasoning #surrender

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


Plato


#ever #hardly #i #known #mathematician

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


Antoine Rivarol


#fearing #future #his #life #man

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

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.


Nassau William Senior


#been #conclusions #correct #difficulty #drawing

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






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