Quotes About Reason

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.

Faith is reason grown courageous.