1,806 Quotes About Reason

Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it.

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

Everyone takes part in the mosque for one reason; to have a prayer answered.

Just as spring brings life to flowers and the moon moves tides on the shores, nothing is simply chance. Everything happens for a reason. Everything is a routine.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to act. Rather, it is to act as one ought to act. And how one ought to act is not dependent upon anyone's power, even if the power be Divine.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.