Quotes About Reason

I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and I'd just go off and write them. I wasn't trying to write one-act plays - it's just how the ideas would be expressed. Every condition I was in seemed like it could be a play.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions.

There's a science to brain development. The brains of teenage boys are crowded with impulse and adrenaline. By the time they hit their 20s, their brains are dominated by conscience and reason.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

Science is telling us that the reason people die is not because some god said so or because the laws of nature mandate it. People always die because of technical problems. And every technical problem has, in principle, a technical solution.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

Thoughtful Christians must battle the myth of the eternal warfare of science and religion. We must continually preach, as John Paul II did, that faith and reason are complementary and compatible paths toward the knowledge of truth. — BISHOP BARRON

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.

Reason, Observation, and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.

The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn.

Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

The instant we admit that a book is too sacred to be doubted , or even reasoned about , we are mental serfs.

Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did, and never will agree. They are not in the least related. They are deadly foes. What has religion to do with facts? Nothing. Can there be Methodist mathematics, Catholic astronomy, Presbyterian geology, Baptist biology, or Episcopal botany?

Inspiration is only necessary to give authority to that which is repugnant to human reason.

If the book and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and the brain do not agree?

Credulity is not a virtue, and investigation is not a crime.

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

Yes," he said, "in one sense, of course it is--utterly unreasonable.