Possibility Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image “We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Possibility Reason
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Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe. — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions. — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
“Human reason goes forth inexorably to such questions as cannot be answered by any experiential use of reason or principles based on it.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became… — Bob Barker Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image