Quotes about Reasoning
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
— Anonymous
Studying Latin can teach you how to think analytically.
— Francine Rivers
The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified. Transient life, even that self-aware and reasoning life which we call sentient, holds only fragile trusteeship on any portion of the wholeness.
— Frank Herbert
Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.
— Frank Herbert
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
— Albert Ellis
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
— Samuel Johnson
eLet this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture indeed is self-authenticated;16 hence, it is not right to subject it to proof and reasoning.
— John Calvin
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
— Aristotle
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
— Edmund Burke
Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion.
— Albert Schweitzer
how interest can draw a film across the eyes, so think, that total blindness could do no more; and how it is our duty therefore to trust not to the reasonings of interested men, or to their way of colouring a transaction. William Wilberforce, 12th May 1789, Against the slave trade
— William Wilberforce
If my belief in other minds is rational, so is my belief in God.
— Alvin Plantinga