Reason Quotes
63 quotations about Reason
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
The more you reason the less you create.
Reason should direct and appetite obey.
Let reason govern desire.
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
No one ever excused his way to success.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
Reason can in general do more than blind force.
I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
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