#Reason Quotes

“The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.”

“Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.”

“Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.”

“Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.”

“Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.”

“And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”

“The will of man is by his reason sway'd.”

“Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.”

“Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.”

“If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground”

“Passion makes the will lord of the reason.”

“I prithee gentle friend,Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, swayIn this uncivil and unjust extentAgainst thy peace.”

“I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,For that I woo, thou therefore hast no causeBut rather reason thus with reason fetter,Love sought is good, but given unsought better.”

“My love is as a fever, longing stillFor that which longer nurseth the disease,Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.My reason, the physician to my love,Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,Hath left me, and I desperate now approveDesire is death, which physic did except.”

“Every why hath a wherefore.”

“Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.”

“O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !”

“Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.”

“Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.”

“Love`s reason`s without reason”

“Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?”

“If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.”

“Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."”

“There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.”

“I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,But qualify the fire's extreme rage,Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.”

“If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.”

“Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.”

“My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.”

“There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.”

“Reason thus with life:If I do lose thee, I do lose a thingThat none but fools would keep.”

“Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.”

“O, reason not the need!”

“Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.”

“A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.”

“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.”

“In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.”

“Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.”

“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”

“I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.”

“Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.”

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.”

“Instinct leads, logic does but follow.”

“Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.”

“Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.”

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”

“I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.”

“I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.”

“Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

“Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.”

“Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.”