Quotes About Reason

That the movements of God's grace must always be accepted and understood in virtue of the life of faith, because ultimately the truth of every mysterious action of his grace is discerned in the light of faith rather than by the powers of reason or of intellect.

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But, though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

Die Neugier ist die mächtigste Antriebskraft im Universum, weil sie die beiden größten Bremskräfte im Universum überwinden kann: die Vernunft und die Angst.

No trates de imponer la autoridad donde sólo se trata de la razón. VOLTAIRE

It appears that so-called common sense is a most uncommon commodity nowadays.

Reason would say so, if what you say is true. But creatures may be intelligent and not reasonable. Our forefathers were presumably intelligent, yet they were certainly not reasonable. Was it reasonable to destroy almost all their tremendous civilization in atomic warfare over causes our historians can no longer accurately determine?

Anger will destroy you faster than any turtle. Anger robs the mind of its eyes of reason. And you live by your mind. We are weaker than the buffalo and slower than the horse. Our nails are not so sharp as the lion's. But where we walk, we rule. The difference is our minds. Anger clouds our minds.

All folk are afraid of the dark. Be they biggin or wee, the unseen world casts doubt upon reason, scratches

When a man believes that deciding the fate of others  will grant him control of his own life, he has left the path of reason.

what if they had a damn good reason for chasing him, a motivation that ran deeper than "Hey, an alien, catch it!

Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fools.

That may be why, ultimately, I was fired.

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

There's a reason for everything, if it weren't for the stars, there would be no universe.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed. Memory

There is good reason to believe that general intelligence is likely to be associated with better judgment. Intelligence is correlated with good performance in virtually all domains. All other things being equal, it is associated not only with higher academic achievement but also with higher job performance.

Rationality is logical coherence—reasonable or not.

In everyday speech, we call people reasonable if it is possible to reason with them, if their beliefs are generally in tune with reality, and if their preferences are in line with their interests and their values. The

for most people, the cause of a mistake matters. The

Una collina di cui non si conosce l'altitudine è un'offesa per la ragione e mi inquieta. Senza esaminare costantemente la propria posizione, nessun uomo può progredire. Non si lascia ai margini del proprio cammino un mistero, per quanto insignificante.

The poet John Keats noted that whereas great authors are 'capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason', the rest of us are 'incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge'.39

At times I wonder if the reason I have lost track of time is that I will know when to return not by a date, but when an emptiness is filled.