Reason Quotes

63 quotations about Reason
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Sir Thomas Browne · Reason
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
Thomas Carlyle · Reason
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort · Reason
The more you reason the less you create.
Raymond Chandler · Reason
Reason should direct and appetite obey.
Marcus T. Cicero · Reason
Let reason govern desire.
Marcus T. Cicero · Reason
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
E. M. Cioran · Reason
The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
Cyril Connolly · Reason
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Bernard Devoto · Reason
No one ever excused his way to success.
Dave Del Dotto · Reason
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
John Dryden · Reason
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding · Reason
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost · Reason
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
James A. Froude · Reason
Reason can in general do more than blind force.
Gaius C. Gallus · Reason
I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Elizabeth Gaskell · Reason
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Alexander Hamilton · Reason
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
William Hazlitt · Reason
What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.
Georg Hegel · Reason
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
Aaron Hill · Reason
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant · Reason
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Reason
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell Lowell · Reason
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
Martin Luther · 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