{"quotes":[{"text":"As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.","author":"Robin McKinley","tags":["beast","beauty","beauty-and-the-beast","love","reasoning","trust"],"id":1192,"author_id":"Robin+McKinley"},{"text":"Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","delusions","education","knowledge","mystical","mysticism","rational-thinking","reasoning","social-psychology","society","wisdom","wise-sayings"],"id":2181,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The most important and uniquely glorious element of Buddha’s character was that, he did not compel his pupils to be slaves either to his teachings or to himself, but like a conscientious human, demanded from his followers to accept his words not merely out of regard for him but after subjecting them to a thorough examination. And this is where Buddha stands out from the crowd of self-proclaimed prophets.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["buddha","buddha-dharma","buddha-nature","buddha","buddha-s-teaching","buddhahood","buddhism","conscience","dhamma","gautama-buddha","rational-thinking","reasoning","religious-dogma","religious-indoctrination","siddhartha-gautama"],"id":3664,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["ad-hominem","argument","debate","emotions","intellect","intellectual","logic","reason","reasoning"],"id":5487,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Theologians, and religionists in general, start with a fantasy premise and then proceed to apply rigorous formal logic to tease out its implications. Stark himself points out that “theology consists of formal reasoning about God.” This is admirably exact. Theologians, beginning with a wished-for creation of their own minds, analyze that creation’s characteristics by rigorous application of the principles of formal—that is, deductive—logic.","author":"Andrew Bernstein","tags":["deductive-logic","fantasy","logic","reasoning","religionists","theologians","theology"],"id":8081,"author_id":"Andrew+Bernstein"},{"text":"Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["apathetic","apathy","awakening","awareness","cultivate","culture","empathetic","empathy","ignorance","ignorant","life","mankind","nurture","reasoning","society","stupidity","thinking","wisdom"],"id":9830,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Learn the truth...Never assume.Understand the plight...Never judge.Put yourself in someone's shoes...Never hurt.Think before you act, reason before you react.","author":"Kemi Sogunle","tags":["actions-over-words","conscious-awareness","hurting-others","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","love","reality","reason","reasoning","truth","understanding-oneself-and-others"],"id":11115,"author_id":"Kemi+Sogunle"},{"text":"Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than knowing facts; and besides, why bother committing things to memory when you've got Google? My response to this - after I've finished inwardly groaning - is that of course reasoning is important, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't know facts as well. It's not like you have to choose between one or the other. Besides, facts give you a foundation on which to reason about things.","author":"Stefanie Weisman","tags":["facts","memorization","memorizing","reasoning"],"id":12384,"author_id":"Stefanie+Weisman"},{"text":"Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["intuition","map","maps","migratory-birds","reason","reasoning"],"id":17167,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"Holmes,” I cried, “this is impossible.” “Admirable!” he said. “A most illuminating remark. It IS impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong. Yet you saw for yourself. Can you suggest any fallacy?","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["logic","reasoning"],"id":18556,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":201,"pages":21,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}