Quotes
Quotes about Reason
Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.
To break training without permission is an act of treason.
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still, Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. [Lat., Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod gaudias.]
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
