Reason Quotes

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Immanuel Kant

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Nicola Abbagnano

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Thomas Aquinas

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Thomas Aquinas

The more you reason the less you create.

Raymond Chandler

Die Vernunft ist, wenn sie allein waltet, eine einengende Kraft; und unbewacht ist die Leidenschaft eine Flamme, die bis zur Selbstzerstörung brennt.

Kahlil Gibran

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

William Shakespeare

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few

Albert Einstein

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Samuel Johnson

Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point.

Blaise Pascal

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

Sir Alec Guinness

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

Christopher Hitchens

There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Toni Morrison

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

Christopher Hitchens

Reason should direct and appetite obey.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let reason govern desire.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Perhaps we feel inclined to disagree with Him. But there's a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you couldn't be right and He wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you're arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it's like cutting off the branch you're sitting on.

C.S. Lewis

... reason andlove keep little company together now-a-days...

William Shakespeare