Age Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently,…

— Confucius

In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose…

— Paul Bloom

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears.”

— Joseph Conrad

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

[Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take the time…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man is indisputably endowed with reason; the problem is only how he uses his reason in the company of others.”

— Robert Musil

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

— Samuel Adams

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and…

— Marcus Aurelius