Quotes
Quotes about Reason
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason for striking a juror that, "I have a P rule, I never accept anyone whose occupation begins with a P. He is a pipeline operator." This is.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication ("theories"), ideas not derived from any systematic process ("visions"), ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process ("illusions"), ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process ("myths"), ideas which have already passed authentication processes ("facts"), as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes ("falsehoods" - both mistakes and lies).
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
Faith is not contrary to reasonâ¦.
Faith is a continuation of reason.
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
All Nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a Prince as soon as his groom.
There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
