Quotes about Reasoning
Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.
- Laurence Sterne
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.Come now, and let us reason together… though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
- Anonymous
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