Famous Reason Quotes



Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

William Penn

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Michel de Montaigne

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Benjamin Franklin

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

William James

The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Karl Marx

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Omar Khayyam

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Albert Einstein

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

Amelia Earhart

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Voltaire

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Charles Baudelaire

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Oscar Wilde

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Benjamin Franklin

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Novalis

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Andrew Carnegie

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Thomas Jefferson

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Thomas Alva Edison

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.

Thomas Jefferson

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Henri Bergson

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

William Hazlitt

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Vincent van Gogh

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

Oscar Wilde

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

Pythagoras

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Jonathan Swift

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Francis Bacon

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

John Locke

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

Wilhelm Dilthey

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

David Hume

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

William Penn

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

Kurt Tucholsky

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Jane Austen

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

True friends celebrate your wins louder than you do and sit with you in your lows without needing a reason. They choose you — in the good, in the hard, and in the quiet in-between.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

William Blake

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