Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Reason Quotes
BoldnessCourageGuidanceIntellectReason If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
ClarityInsanityReasonScienceThought The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
ConsequenceObedienceReasonWisdom Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
DefenseEmotionPassionReasonSupport Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.
ActionAgencyDecisionFearReason No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Divine TruthHuman UnderstandingMonotheismRational ThoughtReason That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Common SenseCritical ThinkingIndependent ThoughtReason Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense.
BeliefCredulityHuman NatureReason Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
EthicsJusticeReason It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
FaithFoolishnessKnowledgeReasonWisdom When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
ContemplationPerceptionReason The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
ReasonReligionUniversal Assent Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
HumilityInfinityKnowledgeReasonWisdom The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
ControlPassionReason The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ConsequenceExpressionFreedom of SpeechReasonVoice if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.
Freedom of SpeechJusticeLibertyReason There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production, but the manner in which that performance has been introduced to the army, the effect it was intended to have, together with some other circumstances, will amply justify my observations on the tendency of that Writing With respect to the advice given by the Author, to suspect the Man, who shall recommend moderate measures and longer forbearance, I spurn it, as every Man, who regards liberty, and reveres that justice for which we contend, undoubtedly must; for if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.
FreedomPrideReasonValue Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
AutonomyCritical ThinkingIndividualismReason The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
LoveMadnessReason There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
AdaptabilityKindnessPositivityReasonSelf-Control Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.
KnowledgeLogicPhilosophyRationalityReason Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
ConsequenceFaithFaith-Reason RelationshipReason Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
