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"If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." »David Hume
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"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." »Charlotte Bronte
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"backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." »Wolcott Gibbs
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"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward." »Lewis Carroll
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"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward." »Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." »James Grover Thurber
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"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning." »Plato
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"Prejudice is the reasoning of fools." »Author Unknown
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"Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still." »Patricia Russell-McCloud
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"What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?" »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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"Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still." »Patricia Russell-McCloud
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"What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?" »William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2
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"And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward." »Terry Goodkind, "Stone of Tears"
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"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward." »Margaret Fairless Barber
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"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know." »Alexis Carrel
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"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing." »John Locke
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"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do." »James Harvey Robinson
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"A man whose reasoning is myopic can not claim to have conceived of a great idea" »Lot Chakonza
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"He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (backward)." »Ellen Karsh
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"Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence." »Akhenaton
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"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future." »Antoine Rivarol
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"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." »Edmund Burke
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"Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out." »James Dent
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"Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"Thats why i insist that love itself is a mystery,which when allowed to haunt a man's mind,the power of reasoning itself may fail." »Lot Chakonza
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"The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." »Herbert Butterfield
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"Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck." »Author Unknown
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"Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther." »Isaac Watts
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"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
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"So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side." »Victor Hugo
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