Reason Quotes

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

Mahatma Gandhi

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

William Drummond

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Clint Eastwood

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Italian Proverb

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Soren F. Petersen

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Sydney Smith

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Reason over passion.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Iris Murdoch

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Louis Aragon

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information -- never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good -- he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

Plato

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Emma Goldman

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

George Santayana

There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.

Jonathan Raban

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

Little Richard

He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause.

Thomas E. Dewey

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Bernard Devoto