Quotes about Reasoning
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
- Carl Sagan
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
- Carl Sagan
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.
- GK Chesterton
From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man—the function of his reasoning mind.
- Ayn Rand
if you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
- John Stott
Come, let us reason together, saith the Lord, that there may be lights in the firmament of the heaven, and they may shine upon the earth.
- St. Augustine
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
- Publilius Syrus
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
- Frank Turek
Atheists have had to resort to wild speculations to give chance more of a chance.
- Frank Turek
In short, extensive Bible knowledge, a high-powered intellect, and razor-sharp reasoning skills do not automatically produce spiritual men and women who know Jesus Christ profoundly and who can impart a life-giving revelation of Him to others.
- Frank Viola