Reason Quotes

63 quotations about Reason

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Reason over passion.

Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.

You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

Reason is emotion for the sexless.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

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