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Reason

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur. – Italian Proverb

Reason is the wise mans guide, example the fools. – Proverb

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. – Nicola Abbagnano

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. – Thomas Aquinas

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. – Thomas Aquinas

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. – Louis Aragon

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. – Charles Baudelaire

That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. – Lyman Frank Baum

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

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion. – Steve Biko

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. – Nicholas Boileau

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. – Henry Bolingbroke

To reason about love is to lose reason. – Boufflers

Men are blind in their own cause. – Heywood Broun

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle