Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.