Behave Quote by Confucius

“It is easier to list modes of behaviour that are required or forbidden than to set reason to work; but once the mind has…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

— Cardinal Richelieu

“Do not think the connection between the law and the reason for the law is always direct, palpable, and immediate. He had taught his…

— Jonathan Sacks

Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who…

— Immanuel Kant

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

— Francis Bacon

“The theory of behavior is useful to the life of man only as the index is useful to him who goes through it before…

— Giacomo Casanova

“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of reason. If…

— Michael J. Sandel

Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.

— James Anthony Froude

Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

— Gary Marcus

“The ability to reason is what gives us our capacity to have empathy for others, to value life itself. Our ability to judge right…

— Terry Goodkind

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

— Earl Nightingale