Quotes About Reason

La traición nunca prospera, cual será la razón? Que si prospera, nadie osa llamarla traición.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.

Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.

Nothing vexes me so much in stupidity as the fact that it is better pleased with itself than any reason can reasonably be. It is unfortunate that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and trust yourself, and always sends you away discontented and diffident, whereas opinionativeness and heedlessness fill their hosts with rejoicing and assurance.

As Confucius says, under some circumstances murder can be forgiven; but unreasonableness never is.

from investigating the German activity there.  The Germans had to be there for some classified reason.  What was that?  It stands to reason and starts to make sense that this trip by our government was of serious national security importance, and was absolutely handled that way.  With all the massive resources used, and

The difficulty of seeing how values could be objective is a fairly strong reason for thinking that they are not so

I went to Harvard because I got in. This is not the best reason to pick a college,

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity" Ch.2, 8

Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assumed prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.

When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason.

Men living together according to reason, without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them, is properly the state of nature.

how vain, I say, it is to expect demonstration and certainty in things not capable of it; and refuse assent to very rational propositions, and act contrary to very plain and clear truths, because they cannot be made out so evident as to surmount every the least (I will not say reason, but) pretence of doubting.

He that takes away Reason to make way for Revelation puts out the Light of both , as one who pokes out eye to see .

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions:

There cannot be any thing so disingenuous, so misbecoming a gentleman or any one who pretends to be a rational creature, as not to yield to plain reason and the conviction of clear arguments." John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education.

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

we consult reason or revelation

govern his actions according to the dictates of the law of reason which God had implanted in him.

Adam's children, being not presently as soon as born under this law of reason, were not presently free : for law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under that law:

Faith also requires "purification" in Ratzinger's thought.  For Ratzinger, reason allows faith to discern what is superstitious from what is true and what inconsistent with truth from what is a genuine expansion of knowledge.