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«People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.»
Author: Anthony de Mello
| About:
Thinking
| Keywords:
actually, assume, commands, conclusion, defend, dictates, dictating, mistakenly, provide, reasoning, The Conclusion
«Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice»
«No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Passion
| Keywords:
effectually, reasoning, robs
«Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.»
«Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.»
«The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
assumption, common cause, correlation, errors, human error, implies, invalid, invalids, reasoning
«Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, agencies, appropriate, collaborator, collaborators, grounds, lackey, lackeys, observing, permits, reasoned, reasoning, revealing, subtle, superiority
«The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
fuzzy, reasoning, scholarship, subjects
«That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
God,
Power
| Keywords:
conviction, emotional, forms, incomprehensible, presence, presence of God, reasoning, revealed, superior
«Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only hu»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
fortunate, imparted, insight, intuition, justly, reasoning
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