Quotes About Reason

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

You're so beautiful but that's not why I love you, I'm not sure you know this but the reason I love you is you

The exercise of my reason itself was forbidden. But the questions never stopped coming, eventually leading to this one: "Why would a benevolent God set up the world like this, marking one half of the population to be second-class citizens? Or was it just men who did this?

I have faith, but I have faith in human reason

I think, therefore I'll think.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Reason --open-minded and self-critical-- remains the key to our species' tremendous success.

Reason is still our signature tool for coping with a complex reality, yet it is easily subverted by overconfidence, cognitive closure, and biases.

While me must recognize the existence and importance of pain, we must not glorify it. Where pain exists, there must be a reason for it.

Use your head for something more than to give your hat a ride, can't you?

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced.

The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man: so that as we are to obey His law, though we find a reluctation in our will, so we are to believe His word, though we find a reluctation in our reason.

Divide with reason; between self-love and society; and be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others; specially to thy king and country.

For the end of logic is to teach a form of argument to secure reason, and not to entrap it.

As yet the few rule by their hold, not over the reason of the multitude, but over their imaginations, and their habits; over their fancies as to distant things they do not know at all, over their customs as to near things which they know very well.

In true metaphysics I believe that, contrary to common opinion, unbelief far oftener needs a reason and requires an effort than belief.

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

One reason I rarely listen to radio is they don't play our music much.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

Rational thought will always trump medieval dogma.

I'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to 'The Cycle.'

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and reason and ration, rational approaches to things. I don't know, I never really thought why I wanted to study law. But if you ask me whether I would do it again, absolutely.