Quotes About Reason

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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.

Intelligence is worthless without common sense.

The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

What is the meaning of it, Watson?" said Holmes, solemnly, as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

Freeway traffic in Los Angeles was as mysterious as marriage. It moved and flowed, then stalled and stopped for no easily explainable reason.