Quotes About Reason

Dare to exercise rational thinking.

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense

Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more.

The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer's prideful ignorance.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.

To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as the judge of a possible and real condition. All of our knowledge we get from the exercise of our reason; to say that no man can be God and know everything is to take an irrational standard of evaluation.

Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.