1,806 Quotes About Reason

Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates

Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it—freedom, not reason—to pursue his plans for the future.

She reminded herself that all things happened for a reason. In thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was one of them. Surely God had a plan larger than Dinah's.

What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.

How can you forgive someone when they can't give a reason why?

for a purpose without reason

The great misfortune of our generation is that the direction which by the amazing progress of the natural sciences has been given to its interests is not one which assists us in comprehending the larger process of which as individuals we form merely a part or in appreciating how we constantly contribute to a common effort without either directing it or submitting to orders of others.

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.