reason Quotes

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.