John Henry Newman Quotes

I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Philosophy is easier than politics.

Knowledge consists in understanding the evidence that establishes the fact, not in the belief that it is a fact.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use.

Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.