Quotes About Reasoning

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

My mind can always separate the two. Even when I am very upset, I keep reviewing the facts over and over until I can come to a logical conclusion.

There are no good answers to bad questions,

The nature of the female is that she brings forth from out of her own depths fragments of the unknown which it is the duty of the male to make practical upon the physical plane, because it is he who has the ability to reason out what the female has intuited. To this effect the male must also apply his feeling to that which the female brings him, so that he can follow her, and in so doing, fathom the practicability of her gift. In this way male and female together map out the unknown.

Several recent writers on the subject have laid down that every translation of Greek poetry, especially bucolic poetry, must be in rhyme of some sort. But they have seldom stated, and it is hard to see, why. There is no rhyme in the original, and primâ facie should be none in the translation.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections--if he has any--against faith. Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Never did man make worse use of his wits than thou hast done.

Human reasoning is created by God with a capacity for reaching toward God by thinking, choosing, and speaking.