All Quotes

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
‐‐ Allan Bloom

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
‐‐ Austin O'Malley

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Reason gains all people by compelling none.
‐‐ Aaron Hill

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
‐‐ Joseph Roux

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
‐‐ Karl Marx

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
‐‐ Arthur Keith

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
‐‐ Aime Cesaire

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
‐‐ John Dryden

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

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

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
‐‐ Michael Ramsey

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
‐‐ David Hume

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
‐‐ Sophocles

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
‐‐ Pythagoras

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
‐‐ Karl Jaspers

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
‐‐ Ayn Rand

Reason is not what decides love.
‐‐ Moliere

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
‐‐ John Donne

Reason is the enemy of faith.
‐‐ Martin Luther

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
‐‐ Antoine Rivarol

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
‐‐ Edward Coke

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis

Reason is the servant of instinct.
‐‐ Clarence Day

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.
‐‐ John C. Wright

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
‐‐ Josh Billings

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
‐‐ Allan Bloom

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
‐‐ Hermann von Helmholtz

Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.
‐‐ Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.
‐‐ Nick Rahall

Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.
‐‐ Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.
‐‐ Roger Altman

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
‐‐ Barbara Tuchman

Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq.
‐‐ Mike Pence

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.
‐‐ John Ashcroft

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
‐‐ Stafford Cripps

Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.
‐‐ Ezekiel Emanuel

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
‐‐ Roger Bacon

Reba is very, very close to everyone around her. She's a classy lady.
‐‐ Faith Hill

Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!
‐‐ LeAnn Rimes

Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield