Reason Quotes

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

Martin Luther King Jr.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Wendell Phillips

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

William Allen White

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Edwin P. Whipple

Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Bertrand Russell

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Blaise Pascal

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.

Thomas Paine

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Thomas Paine

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

James Russell Lowell

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Alexander Pope

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

Thomas Carlyle

Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.

Proverb

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.

Brian Moore

Little boats should keep near shore

Benjamin Franklin

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

Martin Luther King Jr.

I mean, you could claim that real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's it doesn't exist!

J.K. Rowling

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Austin O'Malley