Quotes About Reasoning

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

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

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,An intellectual All-in-all!

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

Minus times minus equals plus, The reason for this we need not discuss.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

Without Intelligent Design there could be no stupidity

Atheists desperately try to prove the non-existence of God using minds - by their own reasoning - that have evolved from a mud that suddenly appeared from nowhere out of nothing made by nobody. And we are told to believe that a Creator hypothesis is unbelievable.

There's a Reasonable Explanation' is definitely a place you can go, a destination.

Common sense is very uncommon. It is also shaped by your education.

On a basic level- everything we say- essentially anything that comes out of our mouths is a rationalisation in some form or another

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.