1,806 Quotes About Reason

If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.

There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it> alone. The number of books is infinite, and you cannot follow> infinity...For where there is no end, there can be no rest; where there is> no rest, there can be no peace; and where there is no peace, God cannot> dwell.

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic".

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. 'Reason,' Dr. Pritchett had told them, 'is the most naive of all superstitions.' 'The source of public opinion?' said Claude Slagenhop in a public radio speech. 'There is no source of public opinion. It is spontaneously general. It is a reflex of the collective instinct of the collective mind.

At school, you have geniuses who can only memorize the facts. Reading and memorising books from cover to cover, without any promise of creativity or of proposing your new idea to the world.

The funniest thing about being a human is that you can easily disagree with yourself.

There is no inspiration without being armed with the ability of self-talk.

It's all true that education will make you intelligent. But it can't automatically make you a good person too.