Own Reason Quotes

46 quotes by 33 authors

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the… — Thomas Jefferson
Curiosity has its own reason for existence. — Albert Einstein
Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the… — Thomas Jefferson
Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only… — Thomas Jefferson
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason. — Thomas Jefferson
Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God. — Thomas Jefferson
We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for… — Danny Glover
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft
I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if… — Sebastian Faulks
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe. — Blaise Pascal
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our… — Benjamin Franklin
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision — Thomas Jefferson
It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul… — David Bronstein
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your… — Virginia Woolf
A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony. — Adoniram Judson
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not… — Kenny Smith
I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my feelings. How can… — Sebastian Faulks
Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. — Samuel Johnson

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