Inspirational Quotes on Reasoning

“Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.”

“What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord? Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness? Think of it. [The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain That looks so many fathoms to the sea And hears it roar beneath.]”

“Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.”

“We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.”

“Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.”

“The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.”

“When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father and receive all they need. ... For only when you have become utterly dependent upon prayer and faith, only when all human possibilities have been exhausted, can you begin to reckon that God will intervene and work His miracles.”

“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”

“It is the heart which experiences God, not the reason.”

“The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.”

“A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.”

“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.”

“I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.”

“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”

“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”

“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.”

“Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.”

“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”