1,806 Quotes About Reason

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

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

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.[This quote illustrates the reformed spelling advocated by Webster.]

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Stephanie had no problem doing what shewas told, just so long as she was given a good reason why sheshould.

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.