Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [381-400] of 403 Reason quotesReason QuotesReason Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks he has found.~ Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.~ John Updike Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -- their ignorance.~ Hendrik van Loon That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other. ~ Virginia Declaration of Rights It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.~ Voltaire Prejudices are what fools use for reason.~ Voltaire Let the laws be clear, uniform and precise; to interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them.~ Voltaire Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who do reason.~ Voltaire Your book is dedicated by the soundest reason. You had better get out of France as quickly as you can.~ Voltaire Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe...~ Ludwig von Mises There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.~ Ludwig von Mises Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.~ George Washington Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.~ Alan Watts The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.~ T. H. White Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.~ Albert Edward Wiggin Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.~ Oscar Wilde Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.~ Walter E. Williams To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress… Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.~ Wendell L. Willkie The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow citizens. Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to air.~ Woodrow Wilson Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.~ Woodrow Wilson Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print