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A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.
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John Pierpont Morgan
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
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Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
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James A. Froude
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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Thomas Carlyle
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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James Russell Lowell
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
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Edwin P. Whipple
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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
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Sir Thomas Browne
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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Robert Frost
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Everyone has his reasons.
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Jean Renoir
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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Charles Baudelaire
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51 votes
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am never upset for the reason I think.
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A Course In Miracles
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78 votes
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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Little Richard
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I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Let reason govern desire.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.
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Source Unknown
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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
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Alexander Hamilton
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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68 votes
Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.
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Soren F. Petersen
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Henry Fielding
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No one ever excused his way to success.
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Dave Del Dotto
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Immanuel Kant
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Alexander Pope
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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Maurice Maeterlinck
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Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
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John Wesley
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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Reason can in general do more than blind force.
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Gaius C. Gallus
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Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
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Austin O'Malley
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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Aaron Hill
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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William Allen White
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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John Dryden
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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Bertrand Russell
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Jonathan Swift
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Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
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E. M. Cioran
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Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
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Martin Luther
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Reason is emotion for the sexless.
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Heathcote Williams
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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
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Antoine Rivarol
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Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
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William Warburton
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Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
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Welsh Proverb
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Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
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Nicola Abbagnano
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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
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Italian Proverb
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37 votes
Reason over passion.
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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Reason should direct and appetite obey.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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38 votes
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
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Nicholas Boileau
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Strong reasons make strong actions.
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William Shakespeare
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Sophocles
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The more you reason the less you create.
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Raymond Chandler
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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William Butler Yeats
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