“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
“As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.”
“Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.”
“The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.”
“Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.”
“There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.”
“Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.”
“Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.”
“An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.”
“Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.”
“People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.”
“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
“Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.”
“On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.”
“Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.”
“I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.”
“Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.”
“An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.”
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.”
“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”
“We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.”
“A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.”
“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
“Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.”
“If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.”
“Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.”
“Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.”
“Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.”
“The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.”
“The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.”