Quotes by Bronte, Charlotte

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untem >>

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the >>

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity >>

Quotations about Reason

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. >>

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. >>

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently th >>

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

Bronte, Charlotte