Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic”.

The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions.

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.

What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord?Or to the dreadful summit of the cliffThat beetles o’er his base into the sea,And there assume some other horrible formWhich might deprive your sovereignty of...

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.

If a man is not sure of his future, he should consciously adjust his thinking.

Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than knowing facts; and besides, why bother committing things to memory when...

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.

The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in the ‘Protogaea’ and of Buffon in his ‘Théorie de la Terre;’ the sober...

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

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...

She was aware that reason had left the room. She was not sorry to see it go.

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.

theology consists of formal reasoning about God.” This is admirably exact. Theologians, beginning with a wished-for creation of their own minds, analyze that creation’s characteristics by rigorous application of the principles of formal—that is, deductive—logic.

As soon as they grow that genitalia, intelligence goes right out the window and we’re left with this thing that just wants to stick it in any hole.

To believe, man needs no full reasoning.Without reasoning, it turns into myophia.

Noise is often a product of inner emptiness

You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one’s character through reasoning in a circumstance.

Whenever i’m stung by an ant for no reason, i compare our sizes then i understand why

Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin,...

For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you,...

Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one’s reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if...

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

Having a reason for those reasons can not be a reason for those reasons you are having for those reasons.

Philosophy: unsound conclusions based on sound reasoning.

Success shouldn’t be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content.

1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought.2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue.3. Therefore, God is a being than which no being could be more virtuous.4. But virtue...

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.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

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...

I’ll not listen to reason… reason always means what someone else has got to say.

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,...

… insanity is never reasonable.

4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity,When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222]– 4

I would like to believe that logic is questioning your reasoning to reach a conclusion.

Religion is a subject which, if the believers used the same “reasoning” to address problems at work as they use to defend their beliefs, they’d soon find themselves unemployed. And if they found their child...

Somewhere Chesterton writes–I think it is Chesterton–that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to.

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our...

Moral philosophers say things like, ‘What is actually wrong with cannibalism?’ There are two ways of responding to that: one is to shrink back in horror and say, ‘Cannibalism! Cannibalism! We can’t talk about cannibalism!’...