We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
—Blaise Pascal
All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.
—Georg Hegel
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.. We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
—Blaise Pascal
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.
—Thomas Aquinas
What is just and reasonable is comely and beautiful.
—Jonathan Edwards
Only time can heal what reason cannot.
—Seneca
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
—Thomas Jefferson
The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win.
—Miyamoto Musashi
O be not wiser than your Master! Follow His advice and do not reason against it!
—John Wesley
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.
—Blaise Pascal
Never believe that others can show you the way to a good life and that you can’t find it yourself. Pay attention to the inner voice of your reason alone and not to the orders and suggestions of others.
—Leo Tolstoy
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
—Blaise Pascal
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience, it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
—Marcus Aurelius
There’s no reason to pity a person if he dies or loses his money, if he has no home or property, because none of those things belong to man. But there’s reason for pity if a person loses his one true possession, his highest blessing: his ability to love.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Reason’s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.
—Blaise Pascal
The reason why so many of our prayers go unanswered is that we are not right ourselves.
—D. L. Moody
Reason is negative and dialectical, because it resolves the determinations of the understanding into nothing.
—Georg Hegel
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
—Plato
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
—Immanuel Kant
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
—Immanuel Kant
Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
—Immanuel Kant
Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
—Immanuel Kant
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
—Immanuel Kant
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
—Immanuel Kant
The Law is Reason free from Passion.
—Aristotle