Reason Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old reason quotes, reason sayings, and reason proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be Joyce Carol Oates
Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. George Bernard Shaw
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton
A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons. Lil Wayne
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
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. Ayn Rand
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. Blaise Pascal
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. Maurice Maeterlinck
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. Samuel Butler
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. William Drummond
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. Karl Marx
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. J.P. Morgan
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. Elizabeth Bowen
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Eckhart Tolle
Smiling without good reason is demeaning. Ellen Raskin
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are. G.K. Chesterton
People don't just disappear. There's always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There's always a loose thread that starts to unravel. Jodi Picoult
We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside. Anchee Min
Reason is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts. Rene Descartes
Reason, like the Sun, is common to all; and 'tis for want of examining all by the same light and measure, that we are not all of the same mind: For all have it to that end, though not all do use it so. William Penn
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 ... governs like a just and lawful prince, and the little community of man is thus held together and sustained. Aristotle
Thought is what makes humans human ... It's the luminous spark of reason that grants us lordship over the animals, endows us with cell phones, and offers hope, even in our darkest hours, that our species will somehow calculate the way forward to a brighter tomorrow. Bruno Maddox
The eyes of reason are the eyes of nature, and the eyes of nature cannot see into that which is beyond or above nature. John Pulsford
Ethics and Logic should be the most generally studied, because all practise them whether they have studied them or not. Richard Whately
Reason is immortal, all else mortal. Pythagoras
Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions. Elbert Hubbard
The will of man is by his reason swayed. Izaak Walton
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. Benjamin Franklin