Reasoning Quotes

445 quotes by 334 authors

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason,… — George Washington
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire… — James D. Watson
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and… — Bill Watterson
O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded… — George Whitefield
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable… — William John Wills
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same… — Mary Wollstonecraft
It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need… — Ron Wyden
The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable. — Marquis de Sade
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning… — David Hume
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you… — Benjamin Franklin
Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy. — Isaac Asimov
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets… — John Steinbeck
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had… — Ayn Rand
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. — Karen Horney
There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge… — Louis Pasteur
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,… — George Eliot
There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into. — Clive James
soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m.,… — Charles Bukowski

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