"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."

Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason."

G.K. Chesterton

"Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts."

John Chrysostom

"Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe."

Anatole France

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

 Galileo Galilei
 
"Reason creates science; sentiments and creeds shape history."

Gustave Le Bon
"Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. 
If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of 
Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is 
dictated to it."

Thomas Paine
"Our prejudicies are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often needed, but 
seldom minded."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, (1694-1773)
"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side."

E.F.L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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