Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience."
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Reasoning
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Stendhal
Novelist
"Women prefer emotions to reasoning."
Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"Logic is one thing and commonsense another."
Alfred North Whitehead
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning."
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"Whatever you can, count."
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"Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all."
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"Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?"
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"All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning."
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"Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning"
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"Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling."
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"All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment."
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"What has reasoning to do with painting?"
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"It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner."
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