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Quotes About Reason

Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason.
~ R.A.Delmonico
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.
~ Les Greenberg
I have great faith that there's a master plan and that even if we don't understand it and even if it's heartbreaking, there's a reason for everything. And I hold on to that.
~ Terri Irwin
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
~ Josh Billings
No sane man will dance.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
~ Moliere
It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.
~ Hal Elrod
When reason fails, the devil helps!
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created
~ John Ralston Saul
Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
~ George Saville
Force without reason falls of its own weight.
~ Horace
Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
~ Seneca the Younger
When passion rules, she never rules wisely.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Not to be mad is another form of madness
~ Blaise Pascal
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
~ Gautama Buddha
Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses
~ Kamila Shamsie
Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.
~ Lee Strobel