Art Quote by Nicholas Mosley

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

— Bertrand Russell

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Mason Cooley

“Reason is not always reasonable”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I do not believe indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition…

— Peter Medawar

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

— Peter D. Mitchell

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

— Thomas Paine

Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct;…

— Immanuel Kant