Quotes About Reason

Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion.

I do have a reason for my insanity. I fear regret.

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

Love God no matter the situation! Always remember that He is with you everywhere! Remember that He loves you, He wants the best of you, and He is the reason you are here!

I believe in opportunity and the power of reason to seize upon it.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

Common sense ain't common.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire.

How much should a Stoic grieve? In proper grief, Seneca tells Polybius, our reason "will maintain a mean which will copy neither indifference nor madness, and will keep us in the state that is the mark of an affectionate, and not an unbalanced, mind.

Acts of parliament that are impossible to be performed are of no validity; and if there arise out of them collaterally any absurd consequences, manifestly contradictory to common reason, they are, with regard to those collateral consequences, void.

The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or a dog that howls at something a man's eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious of many things that we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.

Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.

I would make Reason my guide, but she should sometimes sit Patiently by the way-side, while I traced The mazes of the pleasant wilderness Around me. She should be my counsellor, But not my tyrant. For the spirit needs Impulses from a deeper source than hers, And there are motions, in the mind of man, That she must look upon with awe.