Reason Quotes

63 quotations about Reason
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche · Reason
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Austin O'Malley · Reason
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Ovid · Reason
Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.
Soren F. Petersen · Reason
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope · Reason
Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
Italian Proverb · Reason
Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
Welsh Proverb · Reason
Everyone has his reasons.
Jean Renoir · Reason
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
Little Richard · Reason
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Antoine Rivarol · Reason
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bertrand Russell · Reason
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller · Reason
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare · Reason
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles · Reason
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
Jonathan Swift · Reason
I am never upset for the reason I think.
A Course In Miracles · Reason
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
Nicola Abbagnano · Reason
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen · Reason
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
St. Thomas Aquinas · Reason
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
St. Thomas Aquinas · Reason
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
Louis Aragon · Reason
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire · Reason
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
Nicholas Boileau · Reason
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Henry Bolingbroke · Reason
To reason about love is to lose reason.
Boufflers · Reason

Authors on Reason

A Course In Miracles Nicola Abbagnano Woody Allen St. Thomas Aquinas Louis Aragon Charles Baudelaire Nicholas Boileau Henry Bolingbroke Boufflers Sir Thomas Browne Thomas Carlyle Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort Raymond Chandler Marcus T. Cicero E. M. Cioran Cyril Connolly Bernard Devoto Dave Del Dotto John Dryden Henry Fielding