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Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with -- Bob Proctor
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all. -- C. S. Lewis
Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind. -- Marcus Aurelius
Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality -- Paul Feyerabend
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. -- Mark Twain
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired -- Jonathan Swift
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason. -- Moliere
Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. -- Thiruvalluvar
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own. -- John Mason Brown
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The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. -- Roger Bacon
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. -- William Cowper
The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not. -- Dalai Lama
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials? -- Thomas Carlyle
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love. -- Juvenal
Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances. -- Shannon L. Alder
In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision. -- Tadao Ando
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy. -- William John Wills
Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual. Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts. -- Gordon Allport
Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. -- Galileo Galilei
... insanity is never reasonable. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Reason is not always reasonable -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Human reason can excuse any evil. -- Veronica Roth
great men take and overtake risk tactically -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Strong thoughts are accompanied by great emotions -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Never follow anybody who hasn't asked "why". -- Aniekee Tochukwu
Unimaginative thinking has never produced a genuis -- Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Philosophy: unsound conclusions based on sound reasoning. -- Marty Rubin
Sometimes, humor makes more sense than reasoning. -- Toba Beta
Any reason could be made for self-justification. -- Toba Beta
Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic". -- R. Alan Woods
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. -- Blaise Pascal
It is easy to confuse a fantasy for a reality. -- Duop Chak Wuol
The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons. -- Jean Renoir
we believe certain things because they ought to be true. -- Thomas Gilovich
The more you read, the harder it is to condemn. -- Glen Duncan
If you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. -- Margaret Mead
hapIf you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass -- Stanley Victor Paskavci
when you have a reasonable reason to dare, dare swiftly and unrelentingly -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. -- Jeremy Collier
Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason. -- Amit Ray
Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read. -- Amit Kalantri
To believe, man needs no full reasoning.Without reasoning, it turns into myophia. -- Toba Beta
You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen. -- Michael P. Naughton
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
If a man is not sure of his future, he should consciously adjust his thinking. -- Duop Chak Wuol
We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good. -- Thomas Gilovich
Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it. -- Nina Sankovitch
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them. -- Winston S. Churchill
I would like to believe that logic is questioning your reasoning to reach a conclusion. -- Unarine Ramaru
Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance. -- Unarine Ramaru
if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere. -- Bryant McGill
There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable. -- Sam Harris
There is nothing "honorable" or "reasonable" in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate. -- DaShanne Stokes
You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. -- Suzy Kassem
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. -- Pope Paul VI
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. -- Antoine Rivarol
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. -- Alexis Carrel
She was aware that reason had left the room. She was not sorry to see it go. -- Libby Creelman
Whenever i'm stung by an ant for no reason, i compare our sizes then i understand why -- Constance Chuks Friday
At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply. -- Herman Melville
As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to. -- Robin McKinley
you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There are three people one can never reason with: a drunk, a crazy person, and a fool. -- R. Alan Woods
In some situations, no one has courage to challenge the reason. Since faith causes the reasoning to evaporate. -- Girdhar Joshi
Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am? -- Shannon L. Alder
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. -- Ambrose Bierce
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning. -- Voltaire
Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing. -- Jane Austen
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. -- Will Durant
Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that. -- Arif Ahmed
It is possible to make a decision without reasoning and may be impossible to reason without making a decision. -- Gladys Adevey
when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because -- e. e. cummings
Having a reason for those reasons can not be a reason for those reasons you are having for those reasons. -- Auliq Ice
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Success shouldn't be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content. -- Unarine Ramaru
You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless. -- Melissa de la Cruz
The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions. -- Israelmore Ayivor
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. -- Albert Einstein
Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] -- R. Alan Woods
It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same. -- Anthony Liccione
There is hope for you when your opinions are in opposition to those of the majority. Your brain mighty be working as it was meant to. -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Good leaders come together to solve problems in order to make a peaceful coexistence, but just a single soul can become the leathery meat in the soup. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! -- Bill Watterson
Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off. -- Joyce Meyer
We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston. -- Marvin Minsky
Faith without reason produces a mindless Christianity which is less than useless; the focus on justice in this world produces a theology that chases its own tail."~R. Alan Woods [2013] -- R. Alan Woods
Positive thinking relates to an art of reasoning with the quality of hope for a better future either in the face of difficulties or in the presence of abundance of opportunities. -- Israelmore Ayivor
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. -- Bertrand Russell
No one is an outside observer of nature,We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical. -- Beau Lotto
Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. -- Abraham Lincoln
Oh, how hard it is to understand the hearts of girls and women. When they are not the most timid of creatures, they are the bravest. Reason has no part in their lives. -- Jules Verne
I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us. -- Plato
I look at things and think about them,' Folly replied. 'And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply. -- Jim Butcher
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all. -- Rex Stout
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Thoughts are like things carried by a river. Capture the best while you can, after they have gone, you have to run after them and if per chance you find them, they are distorted -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness. -- Shannon L. Alder
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it. -- Anthony de Mello
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. -- Ayn Rand
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. -- David Hume
Msabu's bleeding. She does not have this ox. This lion is hungry. He does not have this ox. This wagon is heavy. It doesn't have this ox. God is happy, msabu. He plays with us. -- Karen Blixen
Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world. -- Michael Barnett
Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters' (Wimber), then 'empowered evangelicalism' (Nathan) is the natural expression of discipleship."~R. Alan Woods [2013] -- R. Alan Woods
You got to be careful of what comes and leave your mind and how often they do both. Whatever enters your mind has brought a new brand of you and whatever exits is going to manifest that brand. -- Israelmore Ayivor
The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd theologies I have ever in my life heard." ~R. Alan Woods ("Just Keeping It Real", Copyright 2012) -- R. Alan Woods
Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy scrutiny and debate. The absence of such argument also leads us to exaggerate the extent to which other people believe the way we do. -- Thomas Gilovich
The first questions naturally raised by a person emerging from the fog of childhood are the same questions that led Aristotle and other great philosophers to think and write deeply on the subjects of first philosophy and ethics. -- Alan E. Johnson
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. -- Anne Bronte
Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism. -- Shelby D. Hunt
Facts and science without the presence of wisdom and reason are worth a little less than nothing, while wisdom and reason without the presence of facts and science are worth far more than people without wisdom and reason are capable to expect. -- Hasse Jerner
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning. -- Aristotle
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. -- Vannevar Bush

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