reasoning quotes

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

It’s just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we’re in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

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

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.