Reason Quotes

13387 Reason quotes by 6691 unique authors

The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to… — Wendell Berry
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes… — Wendell Berry
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. — Norman Cousins
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. — Claude Levi-Strauss
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation. — Leonardo da Vinci
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… — Mahatma Gandhi
Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for… — Magnus Carlsen
To drink is to warm the heart; without dispelling reason, it gives reason to life. — Jose Maria Peman
I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is… — Maynard James Keenan
There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is… — Thomas Love Peacock
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence… — David Shore
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have… — Mark Twain
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality… — Mark Twain
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it. — Alexander MacLaren
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… — Mahatma Gandhi
Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy. — Marilyn Manson
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… — Mahatma Gandhi
You're the reason why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love. — Barack Obama
And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man… — John Milton
This is a Pandora's box, for endless litigation, for division in society setting one group against another, and we must for that reason, for community… — Unknown Author
What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men… — Saint Augustine
Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation… — Saint Augustine
There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two… — Leo Tolstoy
If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation. — Benjamin Franklin

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