Inspirational Quotes on Reasoning

“The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.”

“To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.”

“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”

“It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.”

“Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.”

“If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”

“Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.”

“Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.”

“Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lower world.”

“The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.”

“He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.”

“It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.”

“Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.”

“Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.”

“Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.”

“Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.”

“When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.”

“A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.”

“Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.”

“Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.”