Attributes Quote by Rene Descartes

“Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated…

— GE Paulus

“The human brain can protect us from seeing and feeling what it believes may be too uncomfortable for us to tolerate. It can lead…

— Bandy X Lee

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

— Sam Harris

Sometimes in our quest for the reasons to how and why, we will seek out those answers that would support our initial argument or…

— Anonymous

In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

— Philip Rieff

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of…

— Michel de Montaigne

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.

— Thomas Hobbes

Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor,…

— Bertrand Russell

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently,…

— Confucius

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and…

— Marcus Aurelius

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

— Mark Twain