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Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
- Wesley, John
Reason Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Reason

1.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx

2.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

3.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

4.
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
Hill, Aaron

5.
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
Boileau, Nicholas

6.
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

7.
Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.
William Shakespeare

8.
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

9.
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
Shaw, George Bernard

11.
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Devoto, Bernard

12.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Frost, Robert

13.
Reason can in general do more than blind force.
Gallus, Gaius C.

14.
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
Swift, Jonathan

15.
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
Shaw, George Bernard

16.
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Bloom, Allan

17.
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.

18.
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
Guin, Ursula K. Le

19.
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

20.
I am never upset for the reason I think.
A Course In Miracles

21.
There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
Morrison, Toni

22.
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

23.
Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Phillips, Wendell

24.
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
Jerrold, Douglas William

25.
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

26.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
Hazlitt, William

27.
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.

28.
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Rivarol, Antoine

29.
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

30.
The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
Connolly, Cyril

31.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Kant, Immanuel

32.
Our passion and principles are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
Sterne, Laurence

33.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
Lowell, James Russell

34.
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Allen, Woody

35.
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Hamilton, Alexander

36.
Everyone has his reasons.
Renoir, Jean

37.
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

38.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Pope, Alexander

39.
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Ovid

40.
Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
Proverb, Welsh

41.
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
Wesley, John

42.
Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.
Petersen, Soren F.

43.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Baudelaire, Charles

44.
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

45.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.
Morgan, John Pierpont

46.
Every why hath a wherefore.
William Shakespeare

47.
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

48.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Butler, Samuel

49.
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

50.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
Dryden, John


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