Ability Quote by Joseph M. Marshall III

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

— Jostein Gaarder

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

We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

— Philip Rieff

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

— Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

— Blaise Pascal

“There is no reason not to be able to reason something greater than us all.”

— Sharron Goldman Walker

Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

— William Hazlitt

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

— Mason Cooley