Famous Reason Quotes

A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.
-- J P Morgan

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
-- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
-- Jean Baptiste Poquelin

All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.
-- Puttenham

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
-- James Russell Lowell

Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.
-- Laertius Diogenes

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.
-- John Milton

But it is not reason that governs love.
-- Jean Baptiste Poquelin

Eloquence may set fire to reason.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.
-- Thomas Jefferson

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
-- Quintilian

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
-- William Drummond

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
-- Jean Baptiste Poquelin

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.
-- Sir William Drummond

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
-- Benjamin Franklin

I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
-- Juvenal

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

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?
-- Albert Einstein

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
-- Louis Brandeis

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
-- Samuel Butler