Reasoning Quotes

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

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

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.

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 test.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

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 adherence to religious principles.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

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 impenetrable fog!

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

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

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

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.