Proverbs and quotes about reason.
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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.(unknown author)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - the United Nations
Believe nothing,Gautama Buddha
No matter where you read it,
Or who has said it,
Not even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.Voltaire
Give me reason, but don't give me choiceJames Blunt
Cause I'll just make the same mistake again.
Source: Song lyrics: Same mistake
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.Jane Austen
Source: Persuasion
I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.Roger Ebert
In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: A Study in Scarlet
In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing had so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.Daniel Dennett
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.Jonathan Swift
Knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational analysis.American Humanist Association
Source: Humanism and Its Aspirations
Mathematics is the music of reason.James Joseph Sylvester
Non-intellectual people overestimate the power of reason among intellectuals.Jill Paton Walsh
Source: The Late Scholar: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate
Opposing reason is, by definition, unreasonable.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.Mother Teresa
The beauty of reason is that it can always be applied to understand failures of reason.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil’s masterpiece.Sam Harris
The optimist says, "the glass is half full".(unknown author)
The pessimist says, "the glass is half empty".
The rationalist says, "the glass is twice as big as it needs to be".
The thinkers of the Enlightenment sought a new understanding of the human condition. The era was a cornucopia of ideas, some of them contradictory, but four themes tie them together: reason, science, humanism, and progress.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.Stephen Hawking
There is no reason to look back(unknown author)
when you have so much to look forward to.
There's the common veneration (not just by the religious) of faith, namely believing something without a good reason.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not also desire for the rest of humankind.Baruch Spinoza
Without logic, reason is useless. With it, you can win arguments and alienate multitudes.(unknown author)
Source: Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar...
