Quotes
Quotes about Reason
The main reason for doing it now ... had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team.
Art is right reason in the doing of work. Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to thier hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -James Baldwin.
How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep'rate, yet forever near!
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep, All replication prompt and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep. To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .
Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.
Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
For while the treason I detest, The traitor still I love.
He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe.
Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason.
