Reasoned Quotes

104 quotes by 94 authors

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor. — John Poindexter
God-realization is the most difficult state to reach. Let no one fool himself, nor think that someone else can "give" it to him. Whenever I… — Paramahansa Yogananda
When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned. — Honore de Balzac
Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals… — Aristotle
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement. — Juvenal
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition. — Henri Matisse
That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up. — Fisher Ames
Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through… — John F. Kennedy
My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached. — David Frum
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. — Thomas Huxley
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages. — Guru Nanak
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will… — Stendhal
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. — Margaret Thatcher
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could… — Harriet Tubman
And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long… — Curtis Sittenfeld
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into. — Clive James
They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves… — Jeffrey Eugenides
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift

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