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“The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her”
George Bernard Shaw
“Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.”
Mark Twain
“The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
Blaise Pascal
“Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.”
Dr. Ralph Gerard
“The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.”
Oscar Wilde
“Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”
“I am learning to trust my instincts, rather than struggle too hard with reason ... because reason can get buried in misinformation, or too much information; and it can lack the miracle of love.”
Jan Denise
“Rest in reason; move in passion”
Khalil Gibran
“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.”
Proverb