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I can't reason when I'm around you. -- Nely Cab
Man is a reasoning Animal. -- Seneca The Younger
Reasons get forgotten. -- Alessandro Baricco
I'm fascinated by the logic that leads to something. -- Eugene Mirman
You can't rationally argue out
what wasn't rationally argued in. -- George Bernard Shaw
Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined. -- John C. Wright
Reason Has No Strength When Up Against Instinct -- Anonymous
Reason is your means of survival - so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'. -- Ayn Rand
The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone. -- Stephen Greenblatt
Sip Someone else's logic then spit it out -- Amber Tamblyn
Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic. -- Ken Auletta
Everything has reasons, even if they're not good ones. And the reasons have reasons. -- Johnny Rich
The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person's argument no matter how divergent their views may seem. -- Auliq Ice
Reason speaks and feeling bites -- Plutarch
Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road. -- Marcus Aurelius
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. -- C.s. Lewis
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. -- Christopher Hitchens
There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When you can't see the reason for something, look for the possible result - and ask yourself who might benefit from it. -- John Flanagan
rationalize that as something else -- Peter F. Hamilton
I often question your actions, but rarely your reasoning. And this isn't one of those rare instances. -- Sherry Thomas
When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason. -- James Altucher
There is something more important than logic: imagination -- Alfred Hitchcock
Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate that thinking be discarded - which leaves one in the position of attempting to do a job after throwing away the required instrument. -- George H. Smith
Let reason alone decide -- Parmenides
Logic is relative. -- John Irving
Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged. -- Rollo May
You cannot approach this from logic. You have to approach this from the most wild depths of your imagination. -- Alice Mcquillan
We do moral reasoning not to reconstruct the actual reasons why we ourselves came to a judgment; we reason to find the best possible reasons why somebody else ought to join us in our judgment. -- Jonathan Haidt
When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn. -- Osamu Dazai
With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. -- Madeleine L'engle
There's not to reason why,
There's but to do and die -- Alfred Tennyson
Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. -- Elbert Hubbard
You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning. -- Andy Stanley
When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier. -- Jim Rohn
The basis of all reasoning is the mind's awareness of itself. What we think, the external objects we perceive, are all like actors that come on and off stage. But our consciousness, the stage itself, is always present to us. -- Trey Parker
Does this rationale make sense to you? (Syd)
That's Jack-Logic. It makes total sense. (Steele) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic. -- Lion Feuchtwanger
If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that others seem to have bad reasoning skills. The reality is that reason is just one of the drivers of our decisions, and often the smallest one. Recently -- Scott Adams
You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place. -- Mark Twain
Logic is no answer to passion. -- Herb Caen
Expand your vision and widen your reasoning -- Sunday Adelaja
Logic and reason are the naphthalene balls we use to pack them away into a sandook called 'Someday'. But when that day comes we are too old, too poor, too tired or too lazy. -- Rashmi Bansal
Articulate reasons are cogent for us only when our inarticulate feelings of reality have already been impressed in favor of the same conclusion. -- William James
The simplest explanation is usually the right one -- William Of Ockham
Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical, ... -- Jeff Lindsay
The reasoning should always be based on solid foundations -- Miguel El Portugues
I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something. -- Spike Jonze
Often I had to explain my reasoning to others. Every time it was exhausting to simplify my logic enough to make it understandable. -- Estelle Ryan
Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the inferences we feel naturally inclined to make are hardly ever valid. -- Bertrand Russell
Irrationality is part of everyday rationale -- Elif Shafak
you can't use logic on human behavior. -- Jeff Lindsay
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Strong reasons make strong actions. -- William Shakespeare
How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices. -- Jonathan Swift
Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better. -- Frederick Lenz
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Reason tells me, when I do the pros and cons analysis, how I should feel about it right now and how I should feel about it in 10 years from now and so that the only ... -- Sheena Iyengar
Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills. -- Franz Grillparzer
We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Yo can't reason someone out of something he didn't reason himself into. -- Jonathan Raymond
It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner. -- George Eliot
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. -- Harriet Martineau
Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places
the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value. -- Khalil Gibran
Logic is the art of convincing us some truth. -- Jean De La Bruyere
Every why has a wherefore. -- William Shakespeare
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it
take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
the bottom out of their boat. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good. -- Bill Vaughan
You are not thinking, you are just being logical. -- Niels Bohr
Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application. -- Peter Singer
There is/no reasoning with need. -- Claudia Rankine
In inquiries respecting the laws of the world and the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being. -- Frederick Lenz
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way. -- Aldous Huxley
I possess a strong sense of reason. -- Maria Lassnig
The thought: A logical inquiry -- Gottlob Frege
Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience. -- Doug Cooper
Questioning is simply more powerful than answering. -- Kevin Kelly
It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense. -- Tim Burton
Sometimes, humor makes more sense than reasoning. -- Toba Beta
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph W. Gerard
Sometimes the most logical thought that come out from our head is far from "logic" in reality. -- Dian Agung Yogantara
each individual reasoner is really good at one thing: finding evidence to support the position he or she already holds, usually for intuitive reasons. -- Jonathan Haidt
Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it. -- Lord Byron
I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reason also is choice. -- John Milton
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! -- E. M. Forster
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. -- Elizabeth Bowen
You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. -- C.s. Lewis
Sometimes, convenience has the appearance of logic. -- Sophie Hannah
Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs. -- Daniel H. Pink
In the heat of the moment, rational thinking tends to elude us. -- Carlos Wallace
Being is the great explainer. -- Henry David Thoreau
For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems. -- Michael Frayn
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions. -- Alvin Plantinga
Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive. -- Bette Howland
Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one. -- Daniel M. Gilbert
The simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far
more convincing than any complicated explanation could
hope to be. -- Scott Adams
