Quotes about Reasoning

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when.

Reasoning as a limited cognitive function, detached from the personal center, never could create courage. One cannot remove anxiety by arguing it away.

A faith that rests on knowing, where you have to "know what you believe" in order to have faith, is disaster upon disaster waiting to happen. It values too highly our mental abilities. All it takes to ruin that kind of faith is a better argument. And there's always a better argument out there somewhere.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Indeed, I waited while you spoke; I listened to your reasoning; as you searched for words,

“Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.

Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks alike.

For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”

This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:

I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?