Reason Quotes

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 ...

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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...

Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than ...

I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand - through rational thought - that which ...

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we con...

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a ...

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in suc...

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of ...

Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, 'whether they argue against reason, with o...

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale an' th' rest'll be rubber (plastic!)

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion st...

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That...

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion," Scytale murmured.

But all remains unchanged.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is ...

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rath...

It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an ex...

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intell...

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.