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He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason. (Quote by - Bishop Jeremy Taylor)

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. (Quote by - William Allen White)

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy? (Quote by - Michael Moore)

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)

He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes. (Quote by - Rowland Hill)

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time. (Quote by - George Washington)

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. (Quote by - Catharine Esther Beecher)

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law (Quote by - Sir Edward Coke)

A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray. (Quote by - Hannah Whitall Smith)

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. (Quote by - Imannuel Kant)

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. (Quote by - Robert Schuller)

You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love." (Quote by - John Keats)

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak (Quote by - Montaigne)

I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. (Quote by - Juvenal)

I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it. (Quote by - Paula Radcliffe)

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. (Quote by - George Orwell)

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks. (Quote by - Alexis Bledel)

There are thousands of reasons why you cannot do what you want to. All you need is one reason why you can. (Quote by - Willis R. Whitney)

Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. (Quote by - John Dryden)

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