Inspirational Quotes on Reasoning

“There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things. It is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance, which have, in fact, such extensive consequences.”

“The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.”

“Our higher feelings move our animal nature; and our animal nature, irritated, may call back a semblance of those emotions; but the whole difference between nobleness and baseness lies in the question, whether the feeling begins from below or above.”

“Imagination ennobles appetites which in themselves are low, and spiritualizes acts which, else, are only animal. But the pleasures which begin in the senses only sensualize.”

“Realists do not fear the results of their study.”

“There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.”

“A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”

“A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.”

“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”

“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”

“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.”

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

“If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.”

“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”

“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.”

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

“The present condition of fame is merely fashion.”

“The simplification of anything is always sensational.”

“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”