1,806 Quotes About Reason

Innocence is no Protection against the Arbitrary Cruelty of a Tyrannical Power : But Reason and Conscience are yet so Sacred, that the Greatest Villanies are still Contenanc'd under that Cloak and Color.

You may have a thousand reasons to quit, but you will always have a reason to Live. And let that reason be YOU!

Decisions of life must be made based on the needs of the living, not of the dead.

In this respect ‘Ἡγεμονιχόν would be a fitting title for the will; yet again this title seems to apply to the intellect, in so far as that is the guide and leader, like the footman who walks in front of the stranger. In truth, however, the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Oh, wearisome conditions of humanity!Born under one law, to another bound, Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity:Created sick, commanded to be sound.What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws—Passion and reason, self-division’s cause?-- from Mustapha

Just 'cause something isn't true is no reason to not believe in it...

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding...{Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823}

When reason and passion battle, passion often wins.