1,806 Quotes About Reason

Put off the fire of pride and save your life from burning with flames of failure. Pride is the reason why many dreams only survive as ashes today. Learn the lesson; hung on to humility!

We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.

There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.

People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.

We have magnificent brains—and use them to believe nonsense and behave as fools. . . . We are enslaved to delusions and too often the servants of subconscious biases. . . . Our great challenge is to use our brains to overcome our brains.

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

We are born atheist and we remain so until someone lies to us.

When I look upon all the human inflicted harm on others and consider the decency we might offer instead, it can lead me to despair. Yet for all our endless flaws I still find hope in our ability to reason and find solutions.