Reasoning Quotes

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I think that the loud roar of irresponsible liberalism . . . is being quieted down by a reasoning public. I think the pendulum is swinging back. We`re remembering that the past can`t be so bad. We built a nation on it. We have to look to tomorrow.

- John Wayne

I learned early that you`d better know what you`re talking about. You`d better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you`re going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there`s no way they`re going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they`re going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You`re an actor. What do you know?"

- Robert Redford

I`ve been to Africa three times. All right? You can`t bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can`t bring it into fundamental Islam.

- Bill O'Reilly

I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.

- Brandon Routh

A child`s day is too often filled with mind-numbing facts solely designed for the next high-stake test, and not life application. An arts education is imperative to our children`s growth and well being, and is proved to have a direct and positive effect on all other forms of reasoning.

- Justin Guarini

We came into agreement that although not all of our reasoning was accepted, they did agree on part of it and said something needed to be done to fix it.

- Dick Smith

All I know is, I don`t do a lot of analysis. I know those words have to move me. I rely on the author. I don`t want actors reasoning with me about "motivation" and all that bull. All I want `em to do is learn the goddamn lines and don`t bump into each other.

- Jason Robards

Fascinating though the issues are, and as serious as they are, I believe the Majority has given in too much to their collective imaginations, rather than sound reasoning based on the record, in reaching some of the conditions on the merger,

- Michael Powell

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

- Robert A. Heinlein

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

- Tom Araya

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

- Vannevar Bush

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

- Benjamin Franklin

I want my life and music to mean more to me and more to other people than just being a footnote in a growing rock `n` roll text book. If I can contribute in any way, I don`t even question it. It`s a human response to a human problem. There`s no real intellectual reasoning behind it at all.

- Sam Roberts

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it`s dangerous.

- George Allen

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It`s a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

- Gene Kelly

During the course of my career, I`ve been shoulder to shoulder with some impressive, powerful people, none more so than Martha Stewart. The world knows of her unsurpassed creativity, but to sit with her in any room, to watch her in action, reasoning, listening, making decisions, is to understand how bright she is, how good she is at the business of being Martha Stewart. What sitting with Martha and Alexis in the conference room of `The Apprentice` demonstrates is how much fun she is too. Being on `The Apprentice,` with the Stewart ladies, has been a highlight of my professional life.

- Charles Koppelman

During the course of my career, I have been shoulder to shoulder with some impressive, powerful people, none more so than Martha Stewart. The world knows of her unsurpassed creativity, but to sit with her in any room, to watch her in action, reasoning, listening, making decisions, is to understand how bright she is, how good she is at the business of being Martha Stewart. What sitting with Martha and Alexis in the conference room of The Apprentice demonstrates is how much fun she is too. Being on The Apprentice ` with the Stewart ladies, has been a highlight of my professional life.

- Charles Koppelman

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

You`ve got to understand their reasoning. They think of this historian as one of their pocket-people, whom they feel they can count on.

- Steven Smith

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

- Abbie Alft

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

- Abu Hassan

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

- Adam Clymer

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

- Al Brooks

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

- Alan Goldman

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.

- Alex Culbertson

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

- Alex Gruzen

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

- Alex Okosi

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

- Alex Thiermann

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England`s account.

- Alexander Theroux

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

- Alexandra Picavet

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

- Alfredo Martinez

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

- Ali Partovi

Of all human activities, man`s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

- Amy Lambert

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

- Andre Johnson

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

- Andre Parker

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don`t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don`t solicit their opinions or votes.

- Andrew Salner

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives

- Angela Alioto

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don`t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don`t solicit their opinions or votes.

- Ann Swearingen

if you use that logic and reasoning, that means every car bomb in Iraq would be considered an in-kind contribution to John Kerry.

- Ashton Gibbs

As long as the reasoning behind this is for public safety and is not seen as anything other than that, I think it can work.

- B. Earl Puckett

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles

- James D. Watson

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

- Plato