Reason Quotes

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...

For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if ...

Maria is the best reason to come home.

What a lovely thing a rose is!"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping ...

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions ...

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and gro...

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, ...

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence domin...

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave th...

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental ...

To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be con...

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He mean...

They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.”“But it’s true...I am, in the sense they mean—only h...

To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret...

Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a m...

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the sour...

A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values t...

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to prot...

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Righ...

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. ...