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“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that
his reason is weak.”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: Le Misanthrope (I, 1)
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“Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 17)
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“Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays till we call, and then not often near.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 85)
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“Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise;
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. 1, l. 117)
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“All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason:
For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.
[Lat., Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt:
Res hominum cunctae, nam ratione lies.]”
Puttenham Quotes Source: Arte of English Poesie (p. 125), attributed by him to Democritus
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“For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo
pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]”
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian) Quotes Source: De Institutione Oratoria (II, 17)
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“We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
[Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.]”
Jean Francois Regnard Quotes Source: Les Folies Amoureuses
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“Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.
[Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.]”
Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus) Quotes Source: De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (IV, 14, 19)
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“This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light
of reason, but after the fashion of others.
[Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad
similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: Octavia (act II, 454)
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“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
Thomas Paine Quotes |
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“Let reason govern desire.”
Marcus T. Cicero Quotes |
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“I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes |
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“To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.”
William Hazlitt Quotes |
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“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 Quotes |
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“The more reason, the less government.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.”
Soren F. Petersen Quotes |
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“There is no reason to repeat bad history.”
Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes |
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“Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.”
Bertrand Russell Quotes |
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“Eloquence may set fire to reason.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes |
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“A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.”
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller Quotes |
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“If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.”
Louis Brandeis Quotes |
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“Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.”
William Warburton Quotes |
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“Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.”
William Allen White Quotes |
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“Reason can in general do more than blind force.”
Gallus Quotes |
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“Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.”
James Robinson Quotes |
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