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Quotes About Reason

My reason for joining Juve was simple: they're a great team and it was an easy decision to make.
~ Mario Mandzukic
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
~ Francis Bacon
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
~ Francis Bacon
But the Idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all — idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words; but it is also true that words react on the understanding; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive.
~ Francis Bacon
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
~ Francis Parker Yockey
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
~ Francis Quarles
The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be a monarch of a little world, command thyself.
~ Francis Quarles
Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament defines faith as 'the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of the things not seen.
~ Francis S. Collins
Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament defines faith as 'the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of the things not seen.
~ Francis S. Collins
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
~ Francis Wright
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
~ Francisco de Goya
The sleep of reason produces monsters
~ Francisco de Goya
The slumber of reason breeds monsters.
~ Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
Donde hay poca justicia es un peligro tener razón.
~ Francisco de Quevedo
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters
~ Francisco Goya
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters)
~ Francisco Goya
El sueno de la razon produce monstuos
~ Francisco Goya
El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)
~ Francisco Goya
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos
~ Francisco Goya
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)
~ Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Time, which gnaws and diminishes all things else, augments and increases benefits, because a noble action of liberality done to a man of reason doth grow continually by his generously thinking of it and remembering it.
~ Francois Rabelais
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
~ Frank Moore Colby