Gift from god Quote by Thomas Paine

The choicest gift of God [is] the gift of reason.

— Thomas Paine

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift…

— William Godwin

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the…

— Erich Fromm

Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession…

— Adelard of Bath

“From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human…

— Michel Foucault

“Reason is God's crowning gift to a man...”

— Sophocles

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

— Thomas Aquinas

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

— Anton Chekhov

God is the root cause of humanmisery

— Mak_786

“The ability to reason is what gives us our capacity to have empathy for others, to value life itself. Our ability to judge right…

— Terry Goodkind

To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes…

— David Korten