Quotes on Reason

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of_x000D_ love.

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims - as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force - he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.