Motivational Quotes

Reason

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Reason

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

Havel, Vaclav

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Lowell, James Russell

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Karl Marx

The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.

Connolly, Cyril

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Addison, Joseph

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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information -- never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good -- he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

Plato

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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Dryden, John

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire

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Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.

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A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

Warburton, William

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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

Baum, Lyman Frank

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There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.

O'Brian, John Lord

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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Frost, Robert

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He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Russell, Bertrand

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Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

Cioran, E. M.

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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophocles

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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

Fromm, Erich

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Our passion and principles are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Sterne, Laurence

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There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Morrison, Toni

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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

31.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Pope, Alexander

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

Wesley, John

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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Devoto, Bernard

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Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

Luther, Martin

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To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Hegel, Georg

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Bacon, Roger

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Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Petersen, Soren F.

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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.

Lawrence, D. H.

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As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.

Shakespeare, William

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Allen, Woody