Robert Frost Quotes

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

Reason also is choice.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

There is nothing higher than reason.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.

The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.