Quotes About Reasoning

Other people may try to impede your actions, but they can't impede your thoughts and disposition. Using your reason and imagination, you can find a way to turn any impediment to your advantage.

Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt come to them, if it shall be necessary, having with thee the same reason which now thou usest for present things.

She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else's reasons.

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

Why should I need to explain you

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.

Sullen silence was taken for rapt attention, and gave him greater room to talk; sharp answers were received as smart sallies of girlish vivacity, that only required an indulgent rebuke; and flat contradictions were but as oil to the flames, calling forth new strains of argument to support his dogmas, and bringing down upon me endless floods of reasoning to overwhelm me with conviction.

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.

I have to. I've changed my mind so often." Neither of us spoke for a minute. "That's the worst reason to do something," I said.

Also, I thought, I can always delay the murder. . . . I can let my mind have this company it craves and I can always kill him later on. But I'm sure you know such reasoning is false, because once we grow to love a person, we are not likely to want that person's death.

Your soul is your inner being, your thinking, reasoning, loving, choosing inner being. Your capacity to stand up for what is right. Your capacity to fight against what is wrong. Your capacity to choose even to die for what you believe is right. That's your soul.

How do you 'clear' your thoughts? You have only other thoughts with which to do the job; 'thoughts', therefore, are both blockage and broom. I suppose what we mean is that we should stop reasoning and try to 'feel' - which presumes that what we 'feel' is more valuable than anything we think ...

He was the captain of the chess club and an A-plus student." – Nick "Why would anyone think he's a demon?" – Tate "The world is insane, and you're asking me for the reasoning of a psycho? I'm not a profiler." – Acheron

Does this rationale make sense to you? (Syd) That's Jack-Logic. It makes total sense. (Steele)

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason for believing that there's life after death.

Unreasonable is very relative.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

I see," said Will. But Halt shook his head. "No. All too often, you don't see, because you don't maintain your concentration. You'll have to work on that." Will said nothing. He merely accepted the criticism. He'd learned by now that Halt didn't criticize without reason. And when there was reason, no amount of excuses could save him.