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Quotes About Reason

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Reason is God's crowning gift to a man...
~ Sophocles
Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are right To warn me against losing mine. I cannot say— I hope that I shall never want to say!— that you Have reasoned badly. Yet there are other men Who can reason, too; and their opinions might be helpful. You are not in a position to know everything That people say or do, or what they feel: Your temper terrifies them—everyone Will tell you only what you like to hear.
~ Sophocles
And now that Reason's light returns, New sorrow in his spirit burns.
~ Sophocles
If thou dost count a virtue stubbornness, Unschooled by reason, thou art much astray.
~ Sophocles
You won't listen to reason at all, will you? No. My mind is my own.
~ Sophocles
It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.
~ Henry Reed
I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?
~ James A. Baldwin
I believe in God. I always have. There's a reason that everything happens in life.
~ Joe Nemechek
Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!
~ Lewis Carroll
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.
~ Paulo Coelho, Aleph
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
~ Marianne Williamson
I feel like everything comes into your life for a reason. With 'Awake, ' I got to do a drama, and with 'Anger Management, ' that's my comedy.
~ Daniela Bobadilla
Reason and logic, fused with intuition and empathy, equals awakened consciousness and spirituality.
~ Dara Reidyr
down unlit, unmarked & forgotten roads of REASON & PURPOSE
~ L V HALL
Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.
~ Tanya Masse
If you can't find a good enough reason to do something, then why do it?
~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.
~ Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Never question the conviction of a scientist, based on mere scriptures.
~ Abhijit Naskar
God so commanded, and left that commandSole daughter of his voice; the rest, we liveLaw to ourselves, our reason is our law.
~ John Milton
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
~ John Milton
A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
~ John Milton
Reason also is choice.
~ John Milton