Quotes about reason

"Reason over passion."

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott on reason   

"Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one."

Unknown, Source on reason   

"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."

Unknown, Source on reason   

"Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason."

Voltaire on reason
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"The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it."

Voltaire on reason
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"Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth."

Warburton, William on reason   

"Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason."

Wesley, John on reason   

"An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly."

Whipple, Edwin P. on reason   

"Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world."

White, William Allen on reason   

"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."

Wilde, Oscar on reason   

"Reason is emotion for the sexless."

Williams, Heathcote on reason   

"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."

Yeats, William Butler on reason
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"That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed."

Baum, Lyman Frank on reason   

"I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it."

Eastwood, Clint on reason   

"Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man."

Shaw, George Bernard on reason
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"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

Shaw, George Bernard on reason   

"Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!"

Addison, Joseph on reason   

"Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader."

Jerrold, Douglas William on reason   

"There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved."

O'Brian, John Lord on reason   

"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."

Parker, Theodore on reason   

"Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people."

Phillips, Wendell on reason   

"Everyone is subject to the same failed human rationalizations."

Dye, James on reason   

"Mankind lives to understand things, but only thru deep thinking he can understand the things of real value to him."

Gil, Fausto on reason   

"When reason is against a man, he will soon turn against reason."

Hume, David on reason   

"Every thing is beautiful in its right use."

Tadj Abelkader on reason   

"There is no individual thing in nature, which is more useful to man, than a man who lives in obedience to reason."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on reason   

"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on reason