<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Reason - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66384]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65504]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64691]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63512]]></link><description><![CDATA[An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63062]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you give up, think of the reason why you held on so long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you give up, think of the reason why you held on so long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53138]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53140]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53132]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53130]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53131]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence may set fire to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence may set fire to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53123]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53124]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason can in general do more than blind force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason can in general do more than blind force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53116]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more reason, the less government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more reason, the less government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason to repeat bad history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53120]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason to repeat bad history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53112]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53109]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.  [Lat., Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt:   Res hominum cunctae, nam ratione lies.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53104]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,  Stays till we call, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,  Stays till we call, and then not often near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53098]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear  The better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53099]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear  The better reason, to perplex and dash   Maturest counsels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse,  Right reason for their law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse,  Right reason for their law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indu'd With sanctity of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indu'd With sanctity of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53101</guid></item></channel></rss>