reason Quotes

“I know not why I love this youth, and I have heard you say love's reason's without reason.”

― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

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“What does the brain matter . . . compared with the heart?”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

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“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Intellect

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“Nature confutes the sceptics, and reason confutes the dogmatists.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments .”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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“I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.”

― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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“But I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.”

― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

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