Quotes About Reason

No atrocity was ever committed because people were being too reasonable, too skeptical, or too independently minded.

We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it.

As human being, we live in a perpetual conversation between conversation and violence; what apart from fundamental willingness to be reasonable, can guarantee that we will keep talking to one another?

Surely, if we could create the world anew, the practice of organizing our lives around untestable propositions found in ancient literature—to say nothing of killing and dying for them—would be impossible to justify. What stops us from finding it impossible now?

Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do.

Some say while religious fundamentalists betray reason. Moderates betray faith and reason equally. -Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion(Documentary)

It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us. Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. This spirit of mutual inquiry is the very antithesis of religious faith.

In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason?

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

If you give people a good enough 'why', they will always figure out the 'how'.

Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

passion can blind even those who are ordinarily the most clear-headed.

He was about to marry a young and charming woman, whom he loved, not passionately, but reasonably, as became a deputy attorney of the king.

Do you know what you have done, wise as you are? I have waited a month, which means I have suffered a month. I hoped-man is such a poor and miserable creature-I hoped, for what? I don't know: something unimaginable, absurd, senseless, a miracle...but what? God alone knows, for it was He who diluted our reason with that madness called hope.

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, but which reason is powerless to explain.

La terreur est une chose si peu raisonnée qu'elle s'excite ou se calme sans motifs plausibles.