Favorite Quotations
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Reason
Prayer Of Jesus
I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic. ~ M. Scott Peck He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. ~ William Drummond The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up. ~ Charles Sanders Peirce Reason is the natural order of truth, but the imagination is the organ of meaning. ~ C.S.Lewis Reason is 6/7 of treason. ~ James Thurber When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel. ~ French Proverb Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ~ Alexander Hamilton Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. ~ Jerry Seinfeld Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason. ~ Paul P. Parker Human reason has its limits. ~ Motohisa Yamakage, Essence of Shinto
"Reason is the slow and tortuous method by which these who do not know the truth discover it. The heart has its own reason which reason does not know." ~ Blaise Pascal