Reasoning Quotations

The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

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.

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.

My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life?

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

The reasoning for our civil-military plan is that lasting success will be when the Afghan government, security forces and people can resist the insurgents and terrorists themselves.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

We want to see what his line of reasoning was and if it's a valid argument, then perhaps the dollar sells off. If his comments are not as dovish as people might fear, the dollar might rally.

All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.

There is a specific philosophy in the SBA that the number of loans is better than the amount of money that is being lent out, the reasoning being that the more businesses they touch with the SBA product, the more economic good they do,

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.

She's an inkblot -- the last person who is going to look at Roe v. Wade and say, 'the reasoning is flawed,' and tell us why, ... She'll just follow the path of every justice in the last 25 years who comes to the bench without a developed philosophy and ends up in the liberal camp. People whose intellect is as thin and dubious as hers will be too intellectually timid to challenge orthodoxy.

Philosophers ruin language, poets ruin logic, but with human reasoning alone man will never make it through life.

I feel good about these guys. I think all of them can come in and help up right away. That was our reasoning for going after these guys -- we needed experience. And these guys provide some quality, college-level, game experience.

Growing up ... in the projects of south Atlanta, I witnessed a lot of things. I've seen people killed, seen people stabbed, and there was always some kind of (cause and effect) behind it. You know, here's a guy, we finished the Lord's Prayer after the game and he died. And that's something I never experienced - somebody to die without any reasoning behind it. That made it real tough for me.

From a guy who's had a knee-to-knee hit, I understand the reasoning of the officials, ... You have to protect the players. But I saw the replay, and in this case, I think it was an incorrect call.

If a judge has strong political views, it is perfectly appropriate to inquire whether those views would affect their legal reasoning and cause them not to be objective and fair.

God cannot be seen so long as there is the slightest taint of desire. Therefore have your minor desires satisfied , and renounce the major ones through right reasoning and discrimination.

.He is arguably one of the leading authors, one of the most important advocates, the leading builder of consensus, the leading voice of reasoning and good sense that has enabled the birth of the Caribbean Single Market and the Caribbean Court of Justice.

Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one.

I think Carole is reasoning that her delay will make her announcement more dramatic and dominate the first press coverage of the new year. She is right.

I think that whole line of reasoning is overdone.

I think they felt they had to do something. Their reasoning was they want to avoid guys throwing things, whether it was gum or anything. They did not say they thought he threw it toward Joey.

Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both a language and an analytical method. In short, the art of reasoning can be reduced to a well-constructed

reasoning without knowledge depends on working out what is most reasonable to believe. What is most reasonable to believe is the view which best survives adversary debate.

My reasoning is that the alternative date is 25 October and that would have left us with three away games in seven days,

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

We are not overly happy but respect the decision made by the panel. We are not likely to appeal but would like to reserve the right to while waiting to hear the official reasoning from UEFA.

There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.

We came into agreement that although not all of our reasoning was accepted, they did agree on part of it and said something needed to be done to fix it.

We would like to put this incident behind us. We are not likely to appeal but we would like reserve that decision until we see the reasoning of the panel which we expect tomorrow. We are not overly happy with the decision but we certainly respect the decision made by the panel.

The reasoning is that if you take care of your employees, they will take care of your customers.

The reasoning is instead of taking it offline for two years and spending a lot of money to return it to flight when it probably would fly only one time at the most, why spend that extra money, when you don't need to?

The reasoning is, instead of taking it off-line for two years and spending a lot of money to return it to flight when it probably would fly only one time at the most, why spend that extra money, when you don't need to?

Fascinating though the issues are, and as serious as they are, I believe the Majority has given in too much to their collective imaginations, rather than sound reasoning based on the record, in reaching some of the conditions on the merger,

I understand the gesture. But I also see both sides of it. He is trying to clean up his image and I am not agreeing until I see the reasoning behind it all.

I've always been a huge fan of the Batman universe and Batman, since I was born really. I think the reasoning for that is because he doesn't have a superpower - he has no special ability. He's just a regular person, a regular human.

Some people in the farming areas have invested in irrigation schemes using foreign exchange to import infrastructure using Reserve Bank money, and yet for some reverse reasoning we allow these precious investments to be invaded and destroyed.

Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.

As long as the reasoning behind this is for public safety and is not seen as anything other than that, I think it can work.

This is the first experience we've had with the high stack. I can understand the reasoning for it because with the limited number of athletes that they have versus our guys, it was important for them to try and get ahead early.

This is not a game of 'gotcha.' This is a game to figure out how somebody thinks and what their judicial philosophy is and what their method legal reasoning is, ... He doesn't have to answer every one of those questions to get an idea. But I don't think it would be very helpful if he said, 'I can't answer any of them.'

This is a very, very unintelligible plan. You can't rationally accept the president's reasoning unless you conclude that they don't want to tell you where it's going to end up.

It's carrying the reasoning to a somewhat ridiculous level.

I want my life and music to mean more to me and more to other people than just being a footnote in a growing rock 'n' roll text book. If I can contribute in any way, I don't even question it. It's a human response to a human problem. There's no real intellectual reasoning behind it at all.

The revamp is in response to graduate schools' desires for additional information on students' ability in verbal reasoning and quantitative. It's also very much security, and to ensure that the scores we report are valid.

That's all we were told, with no reasoning at all.

Children begin their lives in the social world of their families, however, as they mature they are introduced to the social world of peers and spend increasing amounts of time with kids their own age. The types of relationships they form differ from those they have with parents and siblings and teach them unique skills that impact their development. Peer relationships are more balanced and the partners tend to bring similar levels of ability, reasoning and skill to their interactions.

Whatever you can, count.

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

The judge ruled against us on both the revocation and the text change, reasoning that we used the wrong legal vehicles. We will have to have some serious discussions before we make a decision as to whether to appeal the decision or not.

All I know is, I don't do a lot of analysis. I know those words have to move me. I rely on the author. I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull. All I want 'em to do is learn the goddamn lines and don't bump into each other.

All men are reasoning animals more than any other animal. They have a bigger brain and better brain. And we reason with our brain.

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.

The long concatenations of simple and easy reasoning which geometricians use in achieving their most difficult demonstrations gave me occasion to imagine that all matters which may enter the human mind were interrelated in the same fashion.

The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.

Money corrupts the process of reasoning.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.

What has reasoning to do with painting?