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Reason Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is…
- Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no…
- No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will…
- There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic…
- Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!
- Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece…
- Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's…
- A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for…
- There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends…
- Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
- Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
- An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.
- Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It…
- My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall…
- There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
- Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the…
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