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Quotations about reasoning

Thomas JeffersonQuestion with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

 - Thomas Jefferson

Tags:   fear  God  question  reasoning  

Thomas JeffersonIn fine, I repeat, you must lay aside all prejudice on both sides, and neither believe nor reject anything, because any other persons, or description of persons, have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable, not for the rightness, but uprightness of the decision.

 - Thomas Jefferson

Tags:   decisions  prejudice  reasoning  

BuddhaBelieve nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

 - Gautama Buddha

Tags:   authority  beliefs  common sense  reasoning  

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

 - George Washington

Tags:   force  government  reasoning  

David HumeIn our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

 - David Hume

Tags:   evidence  reasoning  

George Bernard ShawThere is no harder scientific fact in the world than the fact that belief can be produced in practically unlimited quantity and intensity, without observation or reasoning, and even in defiance of both, by the simple desire to believe founded on a strong interest in believing.

 - George Bernard Shaw

Tags:   beliefs  observation  reasoning  

David HumeAccurate and just reasoning is the only Catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert that abstruse philosophy and metaphysical jargon, which, being mixed up with popular superstition, renders it in a manner impenetrable to careless reasoners, and gives it the air of science and wisdom.

 - David Hume

Tags:   reasoning  religion  superstition  

ConfuciusLet our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.

 - Confucius

Tags:   behavior  reasoning  senses  

Thomas SowellOne of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans -- anything except reason.

 - Thomas Sowell

Tags:   arguments  education  reasoning  

John LockeMadmen do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning, but having joined together some of the ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths. . .For, by the violence of their imaginations, having taken their fancies for realities, they make right deductions from them.

 - John Locke

Tags:   imagination  insanity  reality  reasoning