Quotes About Reason

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.