Reason Quotes

You are genuinely happy when your reason and emotions are in sync.

You can't reason with a bitter person regarding the subject of their bitterness.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

You have returned for a reason. Your adventure begins now.

I actually hate to argue, but my first reaction when someone contradicts me is to call them stupid; obviously, courtesy and reason dictate that I should demonstrate this first.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I'll not listen to reason...Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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

Madness is a distrust of reason.

You can't very well reason with someone when their whole argument is that logic doesn't count.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

I am satisifed with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence