Quotes About Reason

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.

I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.

I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

Let's just say, I went to Sweden for a reason, to make music.

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.

I started in engineering, where I think I could have happily remained and, who knows, made a bundle as a civil engineer or mechanical engineer. But more of my friends happened to be majoring in physics than engineering, so I switched over. No more compelling reason than that.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.

Why give Russia or Syria any reason to doubt that Obama would use force?

Maybe it should just make you feel lucky. Yeah, you were really lucky you didn't die after the accident. But you were a lot luckier to be born in the first place. So if you're here for a reason, maybe we all are.

I did hit him for a reason,' he said. 'What you're talking about is a justification. I'm not saying it was the right thing to do. I'm just saying I did it for a reason. My own stupid reason.' I stared at him. 'So what was the reason?' He looked down and shrugged. 'Same reason I do most things. I wanted to see what would happen.

There's always a reason for God's creation. What was he trying to tell us? What are we to learn from all this?

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

It is fair, therefore, to assume that growing rationality is a guarantee of man's growing morality.

I revered our theology, and aspired as much as any one to reach heaven: but being given assuredly to understand that the way is not less open to the most ignorant than to the most learned, and that the revealed truths which lead to heaven are above our comprehension, I did not presume to subject them to the impotency of my reason; and I thought that in order competently to undertake their examination, there was need of some special help from heaven, and of being more than man.