Reason Quotes - page 7

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. (Pythagoras)
The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone. View quote
Pythagoras
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. View quote
José Martí
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. View quote
Charles Darwin
Humor is reason gone mad. View quote
Groucho Marx
Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all. View quote
Dan Millman
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 blind-folded fear. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. View quote
James Thurber
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. View quote
William James
Time makes more converts than reason. View quote
Thomas Paine
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. (Thomas Paine)
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. View quote
Thomas Paine
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. View quote
Thomas Paine
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. View quote
Ayn Rand
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism-Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860-it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. View quote
John Singer Sargent
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. View quote
William R. Alger
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray. View quote
Montesquieu
The more I learnt about this cheeky – almost rebellious – company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money. View quote
Jonathan Ive
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. View quote
Edmund Burke
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth. (Edmund Burke)
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season. View quote
Robert Frost
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. View quote
Steven Brust
Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them. View quote
Steven Weinberg