Reason Quotes - Page 3

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later,
then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig
further about truth that force me do it, then you would
understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth

The relationship between truth and reason:
"Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient philosophers who proposed friendship as one of the most appropriate contexts for sound philosophical enquiry.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.

Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.

To question reason is to trust it.

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.