#reasonin

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#beauty #beauty-and-the-beast #love #reasoning #trust

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. ↗

— Oliver Evans

#any #communication #each #frequently #happens

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#gifted #great #great men #intuition #know

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#attribute #comes #everything #function #highest

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

— Herbert Simon

#direct #fact #god #grand #make

Human reason can excuse any evil. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#evil #humanity #reasoning #evil

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter. ↗

— Josephine Hart

#life

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#about #information #inside #man #powers

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#compassion #discipline #example #father #honesty

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#bear #discussion #explanation #man #parity