The Reason Quotes

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

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.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

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

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.

There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Never call a stomach a tummy without good reason.

Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things that you really care about.

The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

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

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.