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Quotes About Reason

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.
~ Immanuel Kant
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
~ Erica Jong
Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.
~ Heinz Pagels
A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
~ Plutarch
Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.
~ Khalil Gibran
There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Service is a limitless opportunity, it is the reason why we breathe.
~ Michelle Obama
Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
~ Antonio Damasio
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason
~ Robert Harris
We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
~ Walter Cronkite
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
~ Ralph W. Gerard
One should practice much sense, not much learning.
~ Democritus
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
~ Moliere
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
~ George Gordon Byron
Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.
~ Bob Marley
Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.
~ James Randi
Love knows no difference between life and death The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away
~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.
~ Ravi Zacharias
At least, that's what he chose to believe. To have a reason for his packing, and a place to think of as a sanctuary. Or a hiding place.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
You mean why am I forcing you to come with me? The answer is simple. I want you.
~ Jennifer Blake