Quotes About Reason

The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.

The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.

We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

Faith doesn't begin until reason stops.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.