Quotes about Reason
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept and accept the end Of a love or a season?
— Robert Frost
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.
— Ayn Rand
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.
— Paul Tillich
Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.
— Marcus Aurelius
Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
— Deepak Chopra
be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
— Deepak Chopra
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
— Aristotle
Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
— Erica Jong
If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
— Epictetus
But to be hanged—is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.
— Epictetus