Quotes
Quotes about Reason
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.
There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.
It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. [Lat., Bona prudentiae pars est nosse stultas vulgi cupiditates, et absurdas opiniones.]
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion. [Lat., Diis proximus ille est Quem ratio non ira movet: qui factor rependens Consilio punire potest.]
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
In quiet places, reason abounds.
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.
It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir les choses pour en raisonner.]
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing. - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,
Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.
Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.]
You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."
The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute extremite, Et veut que l'on soit sage avec sobriete.]
But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
