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“fear doesn t listen to reason it takes it own counsel”

— Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Promise, Share via Whatsapp

“Sound reasoning is impossible without truth.”

— Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate, Share via Whatsapp

“As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.”

— Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter, Share via Whatsapp

“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”

— Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm, Share via Whatsapp

“I might as well have struggled with a bear or reasoned with a lunatic.”

— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Share via Whatsapp

“We can observe, but reasoning about what we observe requires truth.”

— Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate, Share via Whatsapp

“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”

— William Kingdon Clifford, The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays, Share via Whatsapp

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens, Share via Whatsapp

“Humor is reason gone mad.”

— Groucho Marx, Share via Whatsapp

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Share via Whatsapp

“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!”

— J.K. Rowling, Share via Whatsapp

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

— Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman, Share via Whatsapp

“In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays, Share via Whatsapp

“It didn t make you noble to step away from something that wasn t working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.”

— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride, Share via Whatsapp

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

— leo tolstoy, War and Peace, Share via Whatsapp

“Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”

— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Share via Whatsapp

“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. Let us reflect that it is inhabited by a thousand millions of people. That these profess probably a thousand different systems of religion. That ours is but one of that thousand. That if there be but one right, and ours that one, we should wish to see the 999 wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth. But against such a majority we cannot effect this by force. Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves.”

— Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Share via Whatsapp