Famous Reason Quotes
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?
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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.
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.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
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.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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.
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.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
