Reason Quotes

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the r...

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but wit...

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a soun...

Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of lig...

Can reason lead us in directions that are good or decent or moral? After all, you pointed out that r...

Reason is overrated. Many pundits have argued that a good heart and steadfast moral clarity are supe...

Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system, an engine for genera...

What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the ...

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own c

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.")

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because anot...

The century of Einstein and Planck was also the century of Hitler. The Gestapo and the scientific re...

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people beco...

I guess I should say a little bit about my method - I really am a fence sitter. I *loathe* Science a...

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself ...

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as fir...

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve o...

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the ...

If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlat...

May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to...

May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to...

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great d...

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate and she is fate.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

Time makes more converts than reason.

if every one is left to judge of his own religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is wron...

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compuls...

We can all be clockmakers, or astronomers. But if we all wanted to be Pushkin. . .if the question is...

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us ...

But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?

Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it.

The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or m...

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Many are destined to reason wrongly others not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who...

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to li...

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call ...

Faith is a continuation of reason.

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What po...

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is ...

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Ene...

The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to b...

But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the sa...

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quar...

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith...

What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the g...

The Search for reason ends at the known; on the immense expanse beyond it only the sense of the inef...

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculat...

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Ill...

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is...

My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself...

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth ...

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

We men of intelligence will learn to harness the insanities of reason. We can't leave the world any ...

Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesit...

Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals...

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a sce...

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus...

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason.

Why didn't you become a sorcerer, Geralt? Weren't you ever attracted by the Art? Be honest.''I will....

You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome ...

One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the...

Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of pro...

Never! while heaven spares my reason,’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize a...

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass...

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colo...

The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but ...

What's all this about sin, eh?''That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no har...

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivatio...

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ough...

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness f...