Reason Quotes

13387 Reason quotes by 6691 unique authors

The war existing between the senses and reason. — Blaise Pascal
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot… — Leonardo da Vinci
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this… — Abraham Lincoln
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous... — Abraham Lincoln
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind. — Abraham Lincoln
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis -… — Rajneesh
Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going. — Andy Warhol
Reason should be destroyed in all Christians. — Martin Luther
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the… — Martin Luther
Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of… — Martin Luther
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be. — Desiderius Erasmus
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power… — Bill O'Reilly
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of… — Paul Feyerabend
There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never… — Richard Dawkins
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous. — Richard Dawkins
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence.… — Christopher Hitchens
If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you… — Dan Barker
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
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
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or… — Thomas Paine
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to… — Bertrand Russell
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in… — Clarence Darrow
What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man of common sense. — Baron d'Holbach
Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate… — Thomas Aquinas

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