Common Quote by George Bancroft

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of…

— Anonymous

“Reason will always be logical, Logic not always reasonable, For truth from reason derivable, And logic falsehood multipliable.”

— Munindra Misra

I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is…

— Thomas Merton

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

— Margaret Benson

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the…

— Erich Fromm

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

— Anonymous

Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was…

— Thomas Nagel

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its…

— Immanuel Kant

“The relationship between truth and reason: "Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!”

— Maurice Blondel

Reason is simply a vast tautology.

— J. M. Coetzee