Reason Quotes
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Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. (Quote by - Charlotte Brontë)
I used to trouble about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason. (Quote by - Joanna Field)
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. (Quote by - André Gide)
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind. (Quote by - John Lyly)
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason. (Quote by - Sir John Harington)
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. (Quote by - Sophocles)
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
My goal is not to be a race-car driver. The reason I'm racing is because I enjoy being in the car and being on the edge. (Quote by - Jacques Villeneuve)
Obviously it's very hard to leave a club that you've supported all your life. But the reason that I've come to Birmingham is that I think Steve Bruce is one of the best young managers in the country and that Birmingham as a club is a sleeping giant (Quote by - David Dunn)
The more reason, the less government. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. (Quote by - Plato)
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
Reason over passion. (Quote by - Pierre Elliott Trudeau)
Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game. (Quote by - Jeff Thomson)
I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills. (Quote by - Ranulph Fiennes)
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. (Quote by - Marcel Pagnol)
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. (Quote by - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand)
A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason. (Quote by - John Pierpont Morgan)
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. (Quote by - Bernard Devoto)
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. (Quote by - Louis Brandeis)
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
Reason is the slow and tortuous method by which these who do not know the truth discover it. The heart has its own reason which reason does not know. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's. (Quote by - Welsh Proverb)
The dream of reason produces monsters (Quote by - Goya)
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. (Quote by - Quintilian)
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of misery would be saved. (Quote by - Augustus De Morgan)
For some reason, I picked up the book. (Quote by - Elizabeth Buchan)
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. (Quote by - MARIO PUZO)
This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. (Quote by - Seneca)
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law. (Quote by - John Milton)
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. (Quote by - John Donne)
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. (Quote by - Joseph Cook)
And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here. (Quote by - Philip Freneau)
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one. (Quote by - Anonymous)
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. (Quote by - Nicolas Chamfort)
Is reason mistaken about what is good? After all, prosperity isn't the only thing that pleases mankind, perhaps he is just as attracted to suffering. Perhaps suffering is just as good for him as prosperity. Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. (Quote by - William James)
Reason also is choice. (Quote by - John Milton)
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning. (Quote by - Little Richard)
It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. (Quote by - Ann Beattie)
The more you reason the less you create. (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. (Quote by - Nicholas Boileau)
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. (Quote by - James Baldwin)
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit. (Quote by - Mohandas K. Gandhi)
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. (Quote by - Tacitus)
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. (Quote by - George Santayana)
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. (Quote by - Georg Hegel)
The main reason he [Alan Moore] was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company. (Quote by - Chester Brown)
Logic is like the sword — those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. (Quote by - William Drummond)
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. (Quote by - John Milton)
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. (Quote by - Louis Aragon)
The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between (Quote by - Norton Juster)
Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another. (Quote by - Jon Elster)
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. (Quote by - James Thurber)
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational. (Quote by - Georg Hegel)
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. (Quote by - Gene Fowler)
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. (Quote by - Hesketh Pearson)
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (Quote by - John Locke)
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self. (Quote by - John Milton)
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
If Stirling Moss had put reason before passion, he would have been world champion - he was more than deserving of it. (Quote by - Enxo Ferrari)
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man. (Quote by - Arthur Stanley Eddington)
The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. (Quote by - Friedrich von Schiller)
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. (Quote by - Frank A Clark)
The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one. (Quote by - Ryan Seacrest)
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title. (Quote by - John Locke)
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? (Quote by - Edward Morgan Forster)
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices — against half the human race — that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. (Quote by - Eva Figes)
Any system of religion that has any thing in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. (Quote by - Adlai E Stevenson)
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. (Quote by - Mohandas K. Gandhi)
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason. (Quote by - Nigel Dennis)
I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police. (Quote by - John Howard)
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know? (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Mankind is governed more by their feelings than by reason. (Quote by - Samuel Adams)
Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion. (Quote by - Dewey Henize)
Reason lies between the bridle and the spur. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
Everyone has his reasons. (Quote by - Jean Renoir)
There is another reason journalists like to drink and eat together: they simply cannot think of better company. (Quote by - Osborn Elliott)
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. (Quote by - Nicola Abbagnano)
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believes things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. (Quote by - John Milton)
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoi)
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. (Quote by - Louis Aragon)
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason (Quote by - David Hume)
We love without reason, and without reason we hate. (Quote by - Jean Francois Regnard)
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,?health, peace, and competence. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason (Quote by - Marya Mannes)
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
The man who listens to Reason is lost; Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Intuition is reason in a hurry. (Quote by - Holbrook Jackson)
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. (Quote by - Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais)
The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. (Quote by - Phyllis Diller)
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
I have yet to see a problem however complicated that when you look at it the right way does not become more complicated. (Quote by - Paul Adelson)
This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason (Quote by - Juvenal)
Eloquence may set fire to reason. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun. (Quote by - Jalal-Uddin Rumi)
The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality. (Quote by - Robert Fulton)
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage (Quote by - W Somerset Maugham)
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself. (Quote by - Sir Thomas More)
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but - more frequently than not - struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. (Quote by - Samuel Goldwyn)
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. (Quote by - Montserrat Caballe)
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing. (Quote by - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex)
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. (Quote by - Antoine Rivarol)
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. (Quote by - Saint John Chrysostom)
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope)
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
T is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
Reason is God's crowning gift to man. (Quote by - Sophocles)
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason (Quote by - Henry Mencken)
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. (Quote by - Vaclav Havel)
Some people have said Fred can get the best out of me but that's not the reason he was picked. I always try to get the best out of myself (Quote by - Steve Harmison)
Prejudices are what fools use for reason. (Quote by - Voltaire)
But it is not reason that governs love. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. (Quote by - James A. Froude)
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. (Quote by - Roger Bacon)
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
Let reason govern desire. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
There are all sorts of strange things and experiences that happen to you over the course of your life, moments where you can't possibly believe what is happening other than for the reason that it is. (Quote by - Richard Gough)
In short, anything can be said of world history, anything conceivable even by the most disordered imagination. There is only one thing that you can't say — that it had anything to do with reason. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Reason has moons, but moons not hers, Lie mirrored on her sea, Confounding her astronomers, But, O! delighting me. (Quote by - Ralph Hodgson)
There is no reason to repeat bad history. (Quote by - Eleanor Holmes Norton)
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action. (Quote by - William James)
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason for striking a juror that, "I have a P rule, I never accept anyone whose occupation begins with a P. He is a pipeline operator." This is. (Quote by - Legal Opinion)
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Quote by - Paul Fix)
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. (Quote by - William Warburton)
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
I'll not listen to reason. … Reason always means what someone else has got to say. (Quote by - Elizabeth Gaskell)
It is God who is the ultimate reason of things, and the knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of beings. (Quote by - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men (Quote by - John Calvin)
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. (Quote by - Cicero)
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. (Quote by - Saint Thomas Aquinas)
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. (Quote by - Lord Dunsany)
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. (Quote by - Galbraith)
Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. (Quote by - ERICH FROMM)
I think he was an angry man [Rafa Benitez]. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous (Quote by - Sir Alex Ferguson)
Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it. (Quote by - Jules Renard)
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. (Quote by - Ovid)
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. (Quote by - Benedict Spinoza)
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
Reason is the enemy of faith. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. (Quote by - Allan Bloom)
If you would persuade, speak of interest, not reason. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work. (Quote by - Faith Evans)
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction (Quote by - Michael Faraday)
The other reason is because I'm a masochistic freak. (Quote by - Natalie Appleton)
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. (Quote by - James Randolph Adams)
No one ever excused his way to success. (Quote by - Dave Del Dotto)
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. (Quote by - Francois-Marie Arouet)
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
Reason is emotion for the sexless. (Quote by - Heathcote Williams)
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. (Quote by - Stanley Baldwin)
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. (Quote by - Saint Thomas Aquinas)
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle)
Logic is the anatomy of thought. (Quote by - John Locke)
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror. (Quote by - Euripides)
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost. (Quote by - Proverb)
I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason. I burned inside to play volleyball. I loved the competition of it. (Quote by - Summer Altice)
Time heals what reason cannot. (Quote by - Seneca)
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Logic and consistency are luxuries for the gods and the lower animals. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. (Quote by - Edsger W. Dijkstra)
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on. (Quote by - Steven Callahan)
Keith has given me a reason to enjoy life again. (Quote by - Nicole Kidman)
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
The reason the prime minister has cancelled this election is because the Conservative Party is making the arguments about the changes this country needs. (Quote by - David Cameron)
The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. (Quote by - John Betjeman)
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. (Quote by - Novalis)
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. (Quote by - David Hume)
Faith … must be enforced by reason…. When faith becomes blind it dies. (Quote by - Mohandas K. Gandhi)
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)
Until I realised that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why. (Quote by - Bruce Springsteen)
Time makes more converts than reason. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand. (Quote by - Ralph Cudworth)
There's been a lot of speculation about the real reason - if there is a real reason - but the players were happy with Mike. (Quote by - Brent Cockbain)
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. (Quote by - JOHN WESLEY)
I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so because I think him so. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. (Quote by - Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. (Quote by - George Eliot)
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Like Dr Johnson, he endures not by reason of his works but by reason of his circumferential humanity. (Quote by - Neville Cardus)
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. (Quote by - John Calvin)
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
On losing the opportunity to star in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 'You know what? It happened for the right reason. Although I would have made a good Clark Kent. I look better in glasses.' (Quote by - Kevin Sorbo)
Strong reasons make strong actions. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. (Quote by - Voltaire)
The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. (Quote by - Arthur Helps)
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect (Quote by - Egar Allan Poe)
I do not love thee, Dr Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well, I do not love thee, Dr Fell. (Quote by - Thomas Brown)
No, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. (Quote by - Niels Bohr)
The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you. (Quote by - Phyllis Diller)
If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink; Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why. (Quote by - Henry Aldrich)
Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. (Quote by - Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. (Quote by - Duc De La Rochefoucauld)
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. (Quote by - David Hume)
I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
Reason gains all people by compelling none. (Quote by - Aaron Hill)
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. (Quote by - Friedrich Engels)
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. (Quote by - Rod Stewart)
Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. (Quote by - Sir Roger L'Estrange)
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. (Quote by - André Gide)
In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there. (Quote by - Paul Cullen)
All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason. (Quote by - Puttenham)
What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs. (Quote by - Richard Taylor)
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes. (Quote by - Mohandas K. Gandhi)
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Reason should direct and appetite obey. (Quote by - Cicero)
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason. (Quote by - Laertius Diogenes)
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason. (Quote by - Bishop Jeremy Taylor)
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. (Quote by - William Allen White)
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy? (Quote by - Michael Moore)
Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes. (Quote by - Rowland Hill)
Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time. (Quote by - George Washington)
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. (Quote by - Catharine Esther Beecher)
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law (Quote by - Sir Edward Coke)
A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray. (Quote by - Hannah Whitall Smith)
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. (Quote by - Imannuel Kant)
You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. (Quote by - Robert Schuller)
You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love." (Quote by - John Keats)
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak (Quote by - Montaigne)
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. (Quote by - Juvenal)
I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it. (Quote by - Paula Radcliffe)
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. (Quote by - George Orwell)
For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks. (Quote by - Alexis Bledel)
There are thousands of reasons why you cannot do what you want to. All you need is one reason why you can. (Quote by - Willis R. Whitney)
Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. (Quote by - John Dryden)
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill. (Quote by - Peter Ustinov)
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish. (Quote by - Sam Snead)
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle)
True virtue is life under the direction of reason. (Quote by - Benedict Spinoza)
Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. (Quote by - Bernard Devoto)
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare. (Quote by - Glenn Ford)
My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance. (Quote by - Tim Allen)
Loving you Is not a choice And not much reason To rejoice (Quote by - Stephen Sondheim)
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
He served well, I was quite surprised with how well he served - He was a better player all in all. I was struggling after the first set to play aggressive for some reason. He played tough and didn't miss any more. (Quote by - Roger Federer)
Have a very good reason for everything you do. (Quote by - Laurence Olivier)
If, for some reason, you could... wanna be with me heart and soul, I'll be waiting for you at 5pm outside Chunky Cheese - The Good Girl (Quote by - Jake Gyllenhaal)
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. (Quote by - Claude Levi-Strauss)
When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say -- and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
We have little or nothing to do or say about when, where, or how we are born and reared - up to the age of reason. After that, we have a great deal to say about when, where, and how we live and die; all we need is the courage to make decisions - even if they are frightening (Quote by - John A Marshall)
We arrive at truth, not by reason only, but also by the heart. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. (Quote by - C S Lewis)
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents (Quote by - Montaigne)
Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner. (Quote by - Ursula K. Le Guin)
To reason about love is to lose reason. (Quote by - Boufflers)
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Reason is immortal, all else mortal. (Quote by - Pythagoras)
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. (Quote by - Edwin P. Whipple)
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. (Quote by - Jay Leno)
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. (Quote by - Mohandas K. Gandhi)
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. (Quote by - Irwin Edman)
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. (Quote by - Cicero)
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason (Quote by - T S Eliot)
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. (Quote by - James H. Robinson)
I'll not listen to reason . . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. (Quote by - Elizabeth Gaskell)
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? (Quote by - Neil Gaiman)
If we find the answer to that, (why it is that we and the universe exist), it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God. (Quote by - Stephen Hawking)
I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money. (Quote by - Ava Gardner)
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters. But, united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. (Quote by - Francisco De Goya)
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
Faith is a continuation of reason. (Quote by - William Adams)
I did it with the hand of reason. (Quote by - Diego Maradona)
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. (Quote by - Peter Cooper)
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance (Quote by - Richard Hooker)
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other. (Quote by - Gillian Anderson)
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
When you have to wait a long time for your chance all it does it makes you keener to do your best when you get in the side and I think the competition is part of the reason the Australian team has been so strong for so long. (Quote by - Brad Hodge)
Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing. (Quote by - Robert Kiyosaki)
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
The reason that the all American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think (Quote by - Farrah Fawcett-Majors)
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world. (Quote by - Bill Frist)
A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose. (Quote by - Gottfried E Lessing)
Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. (Quote by - Quintus Curtius Rufus)
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment. (Quote by - François de La Rochefoucauld)
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality. (Quote by - Mohandas K. Gandhi)
There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. (Quote by - Toni Morrison)
The law is reason free from passion. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Indu'd With sanctity of reason. (Quote by - John Milton)
The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up. (Quote by - Leslie Nielsen)
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force... Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (Quote by - George Washington)
There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children. (Quote by - Pierre Vergniaud)
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, ‘with both eyes open'. (Quote by - Nicolaus Copernicus)
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. (Quote by - Anon.)
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. (Quote by - Henry Bolingbroke)
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe — you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason. (Quote by - Nelly)
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. (Quote by - George Boole)
The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. (Quote by - Maurice Maeterlinck)
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure. (Quote by - Karl Popper)
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)
I will not Reason & Compare; my business is to Create. (Quote by - William Blake)
Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards. (Quote by - Soren F. Petersen)
Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
The reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It's frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult. (Quote by - Lulu)
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right. (Quote by - Matthew Perry)
As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles. (Quote by - BERTRAND RUSSELL)
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. (Quote by - Francois-Marie Arouet)
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion! (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. (Quote by - Marianne Moore)
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? (Quote by - Robert Orben)
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
Reason can in general do more than blind force. (Quote by - Gaius C. Gallus)
The reason good women like me flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman. (Quote by - Theda Bara)
Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies. (Quote by - Gandhi)
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Commonsense is a realised sense of proportion. (Quote by - Mohandas K. Gandhi)
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. (Quote by - Archibald MacLeish)
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. (Quote by - Edward Hopper)
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)
Reason only controls individuals after emotion and impulse have lost their impetus. (Quote by - Carlton Simon)
And have they fixed the where and when? And shall Trelawney die? Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen Will know the reason why! (Quote by - Robert Stephen Hawker)
I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say. (Quote by - Elizabeth Gaskell)
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
Have your cake and ieat it... there's no other reason to have a cake. (Quote by - Derren Brown)
When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity (Quote by - David Hume)
Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience. (Quote by - John D Barrow)
Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they? (Quote by - Gavin Rossdale)
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. (Quote by - Cicero)
Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I'm here. (Quote by - Lance Armstrong)
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. (Quote by - A. N. Wilson)
Faith is a higher faculty than reason. (Quote by - Henry Christopher Bailey)
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. (Quote by - William Ewart Gladstone)
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave. (Quote by - Sir William Drummond (2))
But where the senses fail us, reason must step in (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. (Quote by - Fedor Dostoevsky)
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
