Reasoning Quotes

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

~ Francis Bacon

Whenever the nature of the subject permits the reasoning process to be without danger carried on mechanically, the language should be constructed on as mechanical principles as possible; while in the contrary case it should be so constructed, that there shall be the greatest possible obstacle to a mere mechanical use of it

~ John Stuart Mill

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

~ Alessandro Volta

Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

~ Michael Barnett

If you fail to know how to move with people without emotional discipline, you shall surely become the color of their emotions whenever they go beyond the boundaries of their emotions to display the real and true color of their emotions

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

~ Jane Austen

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

~ Anthony De Mello

End is the end of your thinking and reasoning. End is not the end of endings.

~ Wilson M. Mukama

It's fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.

~ Criss Jami

Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other. ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

Religion is a subject which, if the believers used the same reasoning to address problems at work as they use to defend their beliefs, they'd soon find themselves unemployed. And if they found their child applying that kind of reasoning on a homework assignment they'd wonder what the hell was the wrong with their child.

~ Dave Champion

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.

~ Unarine Ramaru

you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Knock on the heart’s emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

~ Sam Harris

Faith without reason produces a mindless Christianity which is less than useless; the focus on justice in this world produces a theology that chases its own tail.~R. Alan Woods [2013]

~ R. Alan Woods

If Jarod Kintz was a cat, he'd stalk people silently and deadly. Right now, all he does is bark at them for no good reason, like all the good people do.

~ Will Advise

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

She was aware that reason had left the room. She was not sorry to see it go.

~ Libby Creelman

In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

~ Adam Gopnik

Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Reason is not always reasonable

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason.

~ Amit Ray

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They're wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason; but in the face of them my reason tells me, wrong and most wrong, that to dream and live illusions gives greater delight. And after all, delight is the wage for living. Without delight living is a worthless act. To labor at living and be unpaid is worse than to be dead. He who delights the most lives the most, and your dreams and unrealities are less disturbing to you and more gratifying than are my facts to me. I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason. Dreams must be more substantial and satisfying. Emotional delight is more filling and lasting than intellectual delight by having the blues. Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate. I envy you, I envy you

~ Jack London

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.

~ Abraham Lincoln

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

~ Winston S. Churchill

The first questions naturally raised by a person emerging from the fog of childhood are the same questions that led Aristotle and other great philosophers to think and write deeply on the subjects of first philosophy and ethics.

~ Alan E. Johnson

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

~ Thiruvalluvar

The sensible man,' Crow had said (to Sherlock Holmes), 'don't look to confirm what he already knows -- he looks to deny it. Finding evidence that backs up your theories ain't useful, but finding evidence that your theories are wrong is priceless. Never try to prove yourself right -- always try to prove yourself wrong instead.

~ Andy Lane

Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters' (Wimber), then 'empowered evangelicalism' (Nathan) is the natural expression of discipleship.~R. Alan Woods [2013]

~ R. Alan Woods

There are three people one can never reason with: a drunk, a crazy person, and a fool.

~ R. Alan Woods

Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to.

~ Alec Wilkinson

... insanity is never reasonable.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic.

~ R. Alan Woods

What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord?Or to the dreadful summit of the cliffThat beetles o'er his base into the sea,And there assume some other horrible formWhich might deprive your sovereignty of reasonAnd draw you into madness? Think of it.[The very place puts toys of desperation,Without more motive, into every brainThat looks so many fathoms to the seaAnd hears it roar beneath.]

~ William Shakespeare