Reason helps us make sense of the world, guiding choices with logic while balancing the insight of the heart. These quotations celebrate the many facets of reasoning — from slow discovery to bold, intuitive leaps. ✨

Reason is the slow and tortuous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it. The heart has its own reason which reason does not know. ~ Blaise Pascal

I believe it would be healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic. ~ M. Scott Peck

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. ~ William Drummond

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Reason is the natural order of truth, but the imagination is the organ of meaning. ~ C.S. Lewis

Reason is 6/7 of treason. ~ James Thurber

When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel. ~ French Proverb

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ~ Alexander Hamilton

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. ~ Jerry Seinfeld

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

Reason is also choice. ~ John Milton

The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. ~ Blaise Pascal

Human reason has its limits. ~ Motohisa Yamakage

The one chased away with a club comes back, but the one chased away with reason does not. ~ Kikuyu Proverb

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one. ~ Pablo Picasso

The irrationality of a thing is not an argument of its existence, rather, a condition of it. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Reason is intuition’s servant. ~ Albert Einstein

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart. ~ Eric Weiner