Reason Quotes

13387 Reason quotes by 6691 unique authors

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars. — Robert Green Ingersoll
When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient… — Peter Stone
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial bully which is… — Tim Field
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when… — James Clerk Maxwell
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.… — Charles Darwin
There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge,… — Francis Collins
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of… — Laurence Sterne
Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society,… — Jeremy Collier
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is… — Charles Darwin
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our… — Mark Twain
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be… — Dan Barker
When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people… — Bertrand Russell
...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape… — Lucretius
The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are… — Philip Zimbardo
... reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion. — Seneca the Younger
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. — Harun Yahya
The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative… — Jonathan Ive
Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more… — Betty Williams
You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have… — Saint John Chrysostom
Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason,… — Gerhard Richter
In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use… — Jawaharlal Nehru
True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change,… — Dalai Lama

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