Quotes About Reason

I would like to propose that the reason our actions have been so manifestly unsuccessful in steering the world away from its present collision course is that we have not, generally speaking, been basing them on any true understanding.

Why is intuition superior to reason? - Because it does not depend upon experience or memory and frequently brings about the solution to our problems by methods concerning which we are in entire ignorance.

Hear me very carefully on this point. Nobody can take your peace from you. If you have lost your peace, you have lost it for one main reason—you have surrendered it.

If a cricket needs a reason For his wrinkled, vibrant singing, I would reckon, not the season, Not a mating call sent winging Or that evolution grew it, But, because he likes to do it!

And further, the vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. Nor is reason itself the most satisfactory instrument for the understanding of life.

Reason has moons, but moons not hers Lie mirror'd on the sea, Confounding her astronomers, But, O! delighting me.

His madness foiled his reason...

Philosophy is common sense in a dress suit.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.

For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good-will exert upon events in the political field. But however that may be, and whatever fate may have in store for us, yet we may rest assured that without the tireless efforts of those who are concerned with the welfare of humanity as a whole, the lot of mankind would be still worse than in fact it even now is.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

Religion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic.

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed.

My dear, no one knows the power of good sense. It hasn't been built up or experimented with sufficiently.

The truth of God's Word cannot be subject to the puny light of man's self-centred reason

The reason there was no name for such distant relatives was because sane people would have no interest in distinguishing them from anyone else. "Once

Don't trust the right thing, done for the wrong reason. The 'why' of a thing—that's the foundation.

Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.

We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men.

There are no facts or uses of reason which are available outside of the interpretive system. The argument must pit the unbeliever's system of thought as a unit against the believer's system of thought as a unit. Their overall perspectives will have to contend with each other.

Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists, continue to breathe-they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgements [which assumes absolute values]-but the atheistic view of things would in theory makes such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.

Terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere . . . simply decide to hate [others]. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death.