Quotes
Quotes about Reason
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason. [Lat., Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt: Res hominum cunctae, nam ratione lies.]
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]
We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.]
Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.]
This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Let reason govern desire.
I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
The more reason, the less government.
Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
Reason can in general do more than blind force.
