Popular Quotes

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.

- Cyril Connolly

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

- Aldous Huxley

I like reality. It tastes of bread.

- Jean Anouilh

The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale, an' th' rest'll be rubber, (plastic!)

- Finley Peter Dunne

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

- George Orwell

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound Tokens of love and hate, black sorcery stones.

- Stephen Vincent Benit

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

- Sir Thomas Browne

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

- Loren Eiseley

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

- Plato

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

- Cardinal Newman

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

- Cyril Connolly

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

- Thomas Mann

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

- John Donne

Reason is also choice.

- John Milton

Reason is an emotion for the sexless.

- Heathcote Williams

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

- Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

- Blaise Pascal

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

- Cicero

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

- William Drummond

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

- Gallus

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

- Charles J. Ingersoll

Come now, and let us reason together.

- Bible

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.

- Martin Luther

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house; Divorced old barren reason from my bed, And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

- Omar Khayyam

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

- Alexander Pope

Every why hath a wherefore.

- William Shakespeare

I have no other but a woman's reason. I think him so because I think him so.

- William Shakespeare

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.

- Voltaire