Reason Quote by Galileo Galilei

The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then…

— Galileo Galilei

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

— Roger Ebert

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

— Voltaire

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

— Blaise Pascal

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.

— Thomas Hobbes

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

— Victor Hugo

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the…

— Ronald Fisher

Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

— Donald Ray Pollock

A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience…

— Thomas Jefferson

Example has far more followers than reason.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

One can always reason with reason.

— Henri Bergson

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell