Reason Quotes

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."
-Abraham Lincoln

"A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
-Robert Frost

"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
-Thomas Jefferson

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
-Oscar Wilde

"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
-Henry Ford

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."
-Rita Mae Brown

"But as you know, the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between."
-Norton Juster

"Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler."
-Brand Blanshard

"Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right."
-John Donne

"He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave."
-Sir William Drummond

"Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason."
-Frank Gelett Burgess

"To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind."
-John Lyly

"Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational."
-Hebbel

"I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say."
-Elizabeth Gaskell

"Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
-Albert Einstein

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."
-Voltaire

"Once the people begin to reason, all is lost."
-Voltaire

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Law is mind without reason."
-Aristotle

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
-Aristotle

"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."
-Andre Gide