Quotes
Quotes about Reason
And shall Trelawny die?
Here's twenty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why.
When God is planning ruin for a man, He first deprives him of his reason.
Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings.
The images of twenty of the most illustrious families--the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour--were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.
Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, the Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth.
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.
But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.
It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.
I, who have so much and so universally adored this [greek], "excellent mediocrity," of ancient times, and who have concluded the most moderate measure the most perfect, shall I pretend to an unreasonable and prodigious old age?
If on my theme I rightly think,
There are five reasons why men drink,--
Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry,
Or lest I should be by and by,
Or any other reason why.
Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
In taking in printed information, we engage only the reason, and the reason is best satisfied if it can regard words as visual counters and not auditory complexes.
