1,806 Quotes About Reason

You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it.

some things you endure for a reason

The fact is you cannot be intelligent merely by choosing your opinions. The intelligent man is not the man who holds such-and-such views but the man who has sound reasons for what he believes and yet does not believe it dogmatically. And opinions held for sound reasons have less emotional unity than the opinions of dogmatists because reason is non-party, favouring now one side and now another. That is what people find so unpleasant about it.

Time heals what reason cannot.

To be real is to be who you are according to the purpose which God wants you to accomplish but not to be who people want you to be according to what they think you should be.

True freedom exists beyond the bounds of our faculty of reason because rational beings can only reason practical freedoms even if first conceived in theory or as an idea.

Everything has a reason, though it cannot always be deduced for we cannot see the full picture of a life at any point in time.

Jeg taler aldrig med Bønder, uden jeg jo lærer noget af dem: Thi de raisonnere ikke uden om solide og magtpaaliggende Ting, hvorom de vide fuldkommen Beskeed.

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.