1,806 Quotes About Reason

I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

Be a love-nut, not a faith-freak.

Men often forsake the reality of revelations for the fantasy of reason.

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits of time, and, by a few observations, to ascertain the history of this world, and the series of events which preceded the birth of the human race?

The reason for the past is only revealed in the future.

Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.