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Reason Quotes by Voltaire
- Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
- The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
- Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
- The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
- Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
- The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that…
- It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure…
- It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.
- The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin…
- Prejudice is the reason of fools
- Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
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- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong