Quotes and sayings about tag  reason

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

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• Wisdom

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

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• Science

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

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• Life

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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• Love

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

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• Love

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

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• Humor

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

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• Life

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

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• Faith

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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• Knowledge

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

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• Knowledge

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

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• Truth

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

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• Inspirational

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

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• Life

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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• Inspirational

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

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• Truth

I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it.

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• Love

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

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• Faith