Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Reason

1.

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

2.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

3.

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

Wesley, John

4.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

Hazlitt, William

5.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

6.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

White, William Allen

7.

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

Pope, Alexander

8.

His reasons are as two grains of wheat his in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Cioran, E. M.

10.

What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.

Hegel, Georg

11.

I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Gaskell, Elizabeth

12.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Bloom, Allan

13.

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

14.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

19.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

20.

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 unus'd.

William Shakespeare

21.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Eastwood, Clint

22.

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

Connolly, Cyril

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

25.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Abbagnano, Nicola

26.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

27.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Aragon, Louis

28.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

29.

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

30.

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

Warburton, William

31.

We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Parker, Theodore

32.

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

Bacon, Roger

33.

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

Richard, Little

34.

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

35.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

36.

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

37.

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

Dryden, John

38.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

39.

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.

40.

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

Russell, Bertrand

41.

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.

42.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

43.

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

Sophocles

44.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

45.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Chesterfield, Lord

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

48.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

49.

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