Appetite Quote by Kenny Smith

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

— John Henry Newman

The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our…

— Edward Gibbon

“It is by the activity of our passions, that our reason improves: we covet knowledge merely because we covet enjoyment, and it is impossible…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.

— Bette Howland

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

— Aristotle

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

— Edward Abbey

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

— Ayn Rand

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

— Eleanor Catton

Reason is the slave of passion.

— Anonymous

“Reason, Hume argued, doesn’t determine what we want but only how we obtain it.”

— Eric Weiner

The subconscious is motivated by emotion, not reason.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of…

— Anonymous