Exercise Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

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

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

— Nicholas Mosley

A reason may not sound reasonable always.

— Dr Kurien S Thomas

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

— Mason Cooley

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

— Peter Singer

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties,…

— David Hume

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the…

— Zeno of Citium

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

— Jeremy Collier

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

— Blaise Pascal

“Human reason goes forth inexorably to such questions as cannot be answered by any experiential use of reason or principles based on it.”

— Immanuel Kant