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Quotations about reason

Neil deGrasse TysonIgnorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

 - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Tags:   humanity  ignorance  reason  

William HazlittWomen never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that "man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish."

 - William Hazlitt

Tags:   instinct  reason  women  

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favor of the gods.

 - Herodotus

Tags:   plans  reason  reckless  

Horace He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

 - Horace

Tags:   reason  virtue  wealth  

Michel de MontaigneHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that reason is weak.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   arguments  noise  reason  

Voltaire ArouetOnce your faith, sir, persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares to be absurd, beware lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. In days gone by, there were people who said to us: "You believe in incomprehensible, contradictory and impossible things because we have commanded you to; now then, commit unjust acts because we likewise order you to do so." Nothing could be more convincing. Certainly any one who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. If you do not use the intelligence with which God endowed your mind to resist believing impossibilities, you will not be able to use the sense of injustice which God planted in your heart to resist a command to do evil. Once a single faculty of your soul has been tyrannized, all the other faculties will submit to the same fate. This has been the cause of all the religious crimes that have flooded the earth.

 - Voltaire Arouet

Tags:   extremism  injustice  intelligence  reason  

Voltaire ArouetIt requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

 - Voltaire Arouet

Tags:   age  aging  maturity  reason