#reasonin

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens, however, that some nagging counselors have grown strong by a certain kind of nourishment. Others are weak and puny, even infantile, having never been nourished at all. ↗

— Richard Mitchell

#learning #reason #reasoning #training #education

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing. ↗

— Jane Austen

#first-love #reasoning #time #love

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#fog #ideas #impenetrable #inflate #inhibit

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth. ↗

— William John Wills

#freely #given #pervert #powers #rare

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

#bit #cut #first #i #kept

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. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#body #difference #facts #i #like

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all. ↗

— Rex Stout

#based #believe #decisions #different #different thing

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#few #lead #little #many #much

There are three people one can never reason with: a drunk, a crazy person, and a fool. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#reason #reasonable #reasoning #r-alan-woods

Sometimes, humor makes more sense than reasoning. ↗

— Toba Beta

#make-sense #reasoning #humor