Reason Quotes

13387 Reason quotes by 6691 unique authors

This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its… — Unknown Author
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is… — A.J. Ayer
Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well… — Unknown Author
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the… — Albert Oehlen
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains. — Leonardo da Vinci
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact. — Leslie Stephen
A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the… — Charles-Francois Dupuis
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable. — Alvin Plantinga
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. — Francisco Goya
I've learned that you have to stay true to yourself from all the amazing people I've had the opportunity to work with thus far. You… — Emma Stone
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
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his… — Eric Berne
Virtue is nothing else than right reason — Seneca the Younger
Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident — Jean-Paul Sartre
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone — Saint Augustine
More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for… — Bertrand Russell
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make… — Michel de Montaigne
On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's… — Fernando Pessoa
Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety… — Plutarch
Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who… — Guy Finley
Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we… — C. D. Broad
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented… — Thomas Nagel
There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's… — Jerry Fodor
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs.… — Derek Parfit

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