Reason Quotes

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

John Wesley

Strong reasons make strong actions.

William Shakespeare

What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.

William Shakespeare

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

James H. Robinson

What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.

G. W. F. Hegel

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

G. W. F. Hegel

Men are blind in their own cause.

Heywood Broun

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Charles Darwin

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

George Eliot

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

Richard Milhous Nixon