Quotes About Reason

Think with the big head, man! Think with the big head!

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.