Quotes of Reason - somelinesforyou

“ A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one and the real one. ”

- J. Pierpont Morgan

“ Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ”

- Karl Marx

“ Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Every why hath a wherefore. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ His reasons are as two grains of wheat his in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Strong reasons make strong actions. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do. ”

- Claude Williams

“ We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. ”

- Thomas Robert Dewar

“ I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on Tiger's short game and there'll be nothing. He's already pretty darn imposing. ”

- Corey Pavin

“ Time — our youth — it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds. ”

- Helen Hoover Santmyer

“ Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. ”

- J. P. Morgan

“ Every why hath a wherefore. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. ”

- Henry Bolingbroke

“ Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun. ”

- Jalaluddin Rumi

“ To reason about love is to lose reason. ”

- Louis Francois Boufflers

“ Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating the people who work with me and aiming their views at a certain goal. ”

- Walt Disney

“ I make no apologies for that - it was a joke. ”

- George Clooney

“ Reason is emotion for the sexless. ”

- Heathcote Williams

“ The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. ”

- Bernard Devoto

“ What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. ”

- Ovid

“ Will and intellect are one and the same thing. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ Science is simply common sense at its best — that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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