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Reason Quotes

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying; and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Go wherever the facts lead.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.