Reason Quotes

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gaius C. Gallus

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Robert Frost

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

George Bernard Shaw

That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

Lyman Frank Baum

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Jane Austen

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

Vaclav Havel

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Everyone has his reasons.

Jean Renoir

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

Thomas Jefferson

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Alexander Hamilton

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

Blaise Pascal

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Charles Baudelaire

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

Ursula K. LeGuin

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Samuel Butler

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

Henry Bolingbroke

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Nicholas Boileau

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

Jane Austen