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Reason

Quotations from the Wayside

Reason is light that God has kindled in the soul.
ARISTOTLE

Reason is the continuing adventure of the life and of the mind.
DEANE WILLIAM FERM

We can hold no faith which violates reason.
ERWIN R. GOODENOUGH

Error may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

To follow God and to obey reason are the same thing.
PLUTARCH

Reason will not triumph unless the mind is free.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON

The progress of reason is always the progress of a better understanding.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

The function of reason is to promote the art of life.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

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