If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be…

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

— Jonathan Swift

Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.

— Tony Robbins

“My belief is the belief of no beliefs. That's my belief.”

— T. Scott McLeod

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

— Carol P. Christ

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even…

— Daniel Kahneman

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

— Juvenal

“Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth.…

— Gregory Maguire

“She had reasoned that cooking them would make them safe.”

— Michael Grant

“You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“The art of reasoned persuasion is an iterative, recursive heuristic, meaning that we must go back and forth between the facts and the rules…

— Joel P. Trachtman

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

— Mark Twain

“If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures…

— Sarah Perry

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

— Thomas Huxley

“For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There”

— Mary Renault

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

— Mark Twain