Reason Quotes

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. (Epicurus)
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. View quote
Alexander Pope
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. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. View quote
Sun Tzu
Reason is immortal, all else mortal. View quote
Pythagoras
The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept. View quote
George Carlin
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of. View quote
Blaise Pascal
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. View quote
Blaise Pascal
My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love. View quote
Vivien Leigh
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. (George Carlin)
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. View quote
George Carlin
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. View quote
Jonathan Swift
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. View quote
Billy Crystal
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. View quote
Steve Jobs
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. (Samuel Butler (novelist))
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The sleep of reason produces monsters. View quote
Francisco Goya
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. View quote
Max Born
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. View quote
William Shakespeare