Inspirational Quotes on Reasoning

“Our higher feelings move our animal nature; and our animal nature, irritated, may call back a semblance of those emotions; but the whole difference between nobleness and baseness lies in the question, whether the feeling begins from below or above.”

“Imagination ennobles appetites which in themselves are low, and spiritualizes acts which, else, are only animal. But the pleasures which begin in the senses only sensualize.”

“Realists do not fear the results of their study.”

“There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.”

“A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”

“A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.”

“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”

“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”

“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.”

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

“If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.”

“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”

“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.”

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

“The present condition of fame is merely fashion.”

“The simplification of anything is always sensational.”

“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”

“There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.”

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”