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REASON: Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason. (James Randi, Canadian American magician and skeptic, Born 1928)

REASON: The arrogance of reason has separated us from the essence of love. (Kabir, Indian mystic poet and saint, whose writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture, 1440-1518)

REASON: Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. (James Harvey Robinson, U.S. historian who greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship, 1863-1936)

REASON: You can't reason someone out of something he didn't reason himself into. (Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, political pamphleteer, and cleric 1667-1745)

REASON: Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. (Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter, 1905-1982)

REASON: Reason is also choice. (John Milton, English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, Paradise Lost, written in blank verse, 1608-1674)

REASON: I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. (Plato, Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 â€“ 348/347 B.C.E.)

REASON: The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

REASON: All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

REASON: Reason can in general do more than blind force. (Gallus, Roman Emperor, in a joint rule with his son Volusianus, 206-263 A.D.)