Reason Quotes

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Human reason reduced to its own resources is perfectly worthless, not only for creating but also for...

Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." An...

So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, whic...

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not ...

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs ...

Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in...

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (...

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom c...

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

You must rely on reason and science,” she said, “and be guided by a likewise rational ethic of human...

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

It's hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim than that some hidden intelligence created a univers...

The saddest thing about these imagined deathbed conversions is that, even if they were real, they co...

But dogmatism--or the inclination 'to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we h...

But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we ha...

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once ...

Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neigh...

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because ...

Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes ...

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposi...

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the...

There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would li...

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it ...

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

You? I know you! You trust beyond reason."She met his eyes steadily. "Yes. It's how I get results be...

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did no...

Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has ...

It opens the mind toward an understanding of humannature and destiny. It increases wisdom. It is the...

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and...

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, wh...

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fail...

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error beca...

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and ...

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you beli...

What need of prompt or hint when it is open to yourself to discern what needs to be done - and, if y...

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason ...

What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge ...

The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the crea...

Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the ...

In your country and mine we should have the privilege of making fun of this kind of morality, but it...

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect s...

But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of an...

We magistrates find that reason is the easiest thing in the world to dispense with; banished from ou...

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one r...

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not...

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, i...

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things,...

Reason is the enemy of faith.

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in...

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the o...

Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morali...

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even whe...

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign o...

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and...

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrec...

You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to ...

...Spinoza’s Conjecture:“Belief comes quickly and naturally, skepticism is slow and unnatural, and m...

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in viol...

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I ...

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not ...

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it'...

some things you endure for a reason

Its as if you think you'd never findReason and the Sacred intertwined

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your ...

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morn...

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the ...

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of huma...

Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to th...

Reason, in the end, will win against unreason.

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was m...

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling o...

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

You know my friends with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house Divorced old b...

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete yo...

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon...

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ...

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and u...

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.