392 Quotes About Reasoning

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Brain balance is more important than bank balance.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad

For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.{Letter of support to Charles Darwin on his theory of evolution}

They can’t help it, you know. It happens in the egg,” she reasoned. “As soon as they grow that genitalia, intelligence goes right out the window and we’re left with this thing that just wants to stick it in any hole.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

Being the most insecure species on earth, humans have a tendency to seek for instruction manuals for even the fundamental experiences and realizations of life. And that's why so many con-artists, that is, the mystical fraudsters are able to keep cashing on their insecurity, by selling them diagrams and techniques to liberation. The number of gurus, yogis, swamis and psychics in a country increases exponentially with the fall of reason, and the fall of reason leads to the fall of civilization.

The question of why behind every phenomenon in nature, does not have one answer, it has infinite layers of answer, and the more layers you unravel, the closer you get to understanding the makeup of the universe.