Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Bishop Robert South
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
William Hurrell Mallock
For some reason, people had their hopes much higher than this, especially for the guidance. Everything seems to be in line.
Safa Rashtchy
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robert Redford
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Work is the only reason I leave home. I`m not a tourist. I don`t travel for pleasure. I don`t take vacations. I only leave the house when I have something to do.
Frank Zappa
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
D. H. Lawrence
As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
ERICH FROMM
Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it
Blaise Pascal
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
Martin Luther
The more you reason the less you create
Raymond Chandler