Reason Quotes

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson

Against, Ridicule, Resort

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Blind, Becomes

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde

Stand, Unfair, Quite

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Tony Robbins

Life, Power, Focus

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis

Truth, Order, Meaning

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

Trust, End, Though

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religious, Morality, Conflict

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi

Age, Religion, Test

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

Act, Temper, Animal

How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare

Against, Read, Reading

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

Life, Whatever, Alive

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin

Passion, Hold, Drives

The law is reason, free from passion.
Aristotle

Passion, Law, Free

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
Eminem

Mind, Deserve, Thanks

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

Work, Thinking, Why

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Anger, Seldom

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

God, Same, Sense

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin

Faith, Eye, Shut

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson

Good, Money, Men

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Benjamin Franklin

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why, Broken, Lies

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
John Lennon

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake

Business, Another, System

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle

Good, Art, Thought

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
J. P. Morgan

Good, Real, Two

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle

Wisdom, Mean, Choice

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.
Steve Jobs

Best, Heart, Thinking

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

Ignorance, Whatever, Dictated

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