These reasoning quotes will inspire you. Reasoning is the act of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging reasoning quotes, reasoning sayings, and reasoning proverbs.
Best Reasoning Quotes
- “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” ~ Voltaire
- “Feeling is the voice of the body; reasoning is the voice of the mind; conscience is the voice of the spirit.” ~ Kenneth E. Hagin
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“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” ~ Thomas Paine
- “You’re neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You’re right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right – that’s the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don’t have to worry about anybody else.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning…Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.” ~ Blaise Pascal
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“Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.” ~ Lord Dunsany
- “We can’t avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.” ~ Peter Kreeft
- “Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.” ~ Charles Baudelaire
- “The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
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“You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason…that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn’t want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.” ~ Mark Twain
- “You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Never assume people’s motives. It’s the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people” ~ LeCrae
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“Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.” ~ Susan Polgar
- “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” ~ Martin Rees
- “It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.” ~ Leo Tolstoy , Logical reasoning on life
- “There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.” ~ Roger Bacon
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“It’s characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “A man’s judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.” ~ Raymond A. Spruance
- “Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They’ll only be able to parrot the information they’ve been given on the previous night’s news.” ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
- “The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
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“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
- “Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.” ~ Niels Bohr
- “In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.” ~ Thomas Reid
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“All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct – a gift of knowing without reasoning… Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence – it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.” ~ Angela Ahrendts
- “A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.” ~ Tony Abbott
- “How dangerous can false reasoning prove!” ~ Sophocles
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“Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.” ~ George Polya
- “Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. … [T]he word “logic” has a broad meaning, and is not restricted exclusively to the science of argumentative reasoning. [It includes] Grammar [which] is “the science of speaking and writing correctly-the starting point of all liberal studies.”” ~ John of Salisbury
- “If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;–and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,–then certes the soul does not inhabit there.” ~ Laurence Sterne
- “I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It’s the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof.” ~ Jo Nesbo
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“While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.” ~ David Hume
- “All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.” ~ Voltaire
- “She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life – those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody’s mind is capable of true knowledge, you don’t have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.” ~ Joseph Campbell
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“Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn’t pass the test of mathematical proof.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
- “We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness.” ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
- “It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.” ~ Roger Penrose
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“But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
- “Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.” ~ Peter Medawar
- “The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one’s blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.” ~ Norbert Wiener
- “I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.” ~ Plato
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“Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.” ~ James D. Watson
- “Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.” ~ George Washington
- “Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?” ~ John Allen Paulos
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“Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.” ~ Richard P. Feynman
- “To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art of establishing experimental facts, which are the materials of science, he must also clearly understand the scientific principles which guide his reasoning through the varied experimental study of natural phenomena. We cannot separate these two things: head and hand. An able hand, without a head to direct it, is a blind tool; the head is powerless without its executive hand.” ~ Claude Bernard
- “God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.” ~ Leo Tolstoy , Logical reasoning quotes
- “Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.” ~ Bertrand Russell
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“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.” ~ Alan Turing
- “It’s a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery… Adults know too much about failure; they’re more cynical and resigned and fearful.” ~ Lance Armstrong
- “As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.” ~ Celia Thaxter
- “All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of
its features from behind the unreasoning mask.” ~ Herman Melville -
“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired” ~ Jonathan Swift
- “It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.” ~ Ludwig von Mises
- “If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant’s reasoning to the grown man’s passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.” ~ Denis Diderot
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“Whatever you can, count.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.” ~ Keith Devlin
- “Woman’s inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man’s ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
