Quotes About Reason

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.

When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.