Reason Quotes

They say that it’s hard for men to agree. You’d be surprised how easy it is—when both parties hold a...

I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reas...

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard every...

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth o...

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does ...

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot e...

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trendis statism. Philosophically, the goal is theobliterat...

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking ...

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them wi...

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts...

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as...

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

It will be said that, although God’s law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the W...

Imitate Jesus and Socrates

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

If you will not hear reason, she'll rap your knuckles.

For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old st...

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. H...

The difficulty is that, so long as unreason prevails, a solution of our troubles can only be reached...

The fact is you cannot be intelligent merely by choosing your opinions. The intelligent man is not t...

The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason ...

The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage ...

The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing...

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner mom...

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fi...

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

If you can't win by reason, go for volume.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became pre...

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became pre...

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became pre...

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became pre...

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became pre...

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became pre...

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became pre...

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became pre...

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble ...

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the ...

Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

Finally, let them recognise that there are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who se...

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart h...

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural....

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by t...

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my kno...

Reason like a sphere? What type of reasoning does a wooden sphere do?""The circular type, I should t...

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner,...

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reaso...

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but t...

We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies danc...

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matc...

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States...

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people r...

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They th...

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ...

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to di...

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to ...

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ...

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t...

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or...

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, i...

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles a...

God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've fou...

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrat...

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...

Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology h...

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office...

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office...

A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exce...

There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical dis...

Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, writt...

This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and w...

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly th...

If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at h...

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational...

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've alw...

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that...

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

The empiricist assumes without any evidence or proof that his experiences somehow give him a magical...

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have b...

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have r...