Quotes on “reasoning”

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

In 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.