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The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.
Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt read more
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo
pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]
This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason read more
This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason for striking a juror that, "I have a P rule, I never accept anyone whose occupation begins with a P. He is a pipeline operator." This is.