Reason obeys itself; and ignorance
submits to whatever is dictated to it.
?Thomas Paine
Let reason govern desire.
?Marcus T. Cicero
I'll not listen to reason. . . .
Reason always means what
someone else has got to say.
?Elizabeth Gaskell
To give a reason for anything
is to breed a doubt of it.
?William Hazlitt
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel.
Our reason is the pilot that steers her.
Without winds the vessel would not move
and without a pilot she would be lost.
?Proverb
Reason is a supple nymph, and
slippery as a fish by nature.
She had as leave give her kiss to
an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth.
The absurdity may turn out truer.
?D. H. Lawrence
The more reason, the less government.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of us, when all is said and
done, like what we like and make
up reasons for it afterwards.
?Soren F. Petersen
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
?Eleanor Holmes Norton
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling
force rather than a creative one.
?Bertrand Russell
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
?Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
?Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
?Louis Brandeis
Reason is the test of ridicule, not
ridicule the test of truth.
?William Warburton
