Reason Quotes

13387 Reason quotes by 6691 unique authors

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill. — W. Clement Stone
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in… — Robert Kennedy
The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions. — Donald Calne
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe… — Clive Bell
That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the… — Learned Hand
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important. — Gloria Steinem
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. — Mary Wollstonecraft
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that… — Mary Wollstonecraft
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. — Maurice Maeterlinck
The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all… — Edna Lewis
For five days, I had no sleep. None. I did not sleep. And the last day, the reason I lasted, I drank 20 Red Bulls,… — Sam Farha
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul. — Alexander Pope
You would have to say of John Howard's government that he has tended to go after things with a fair degree of determination, and I… — Chris Corrigan
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to… — Ben Jonson
I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to. — Jennifer Jason Leigh
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. — Nancy Astor
in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and… — Thomas Jefferson
A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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