Motivational Quotes

Reason

I am never upset for the reason I think.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Frost, Robert

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

Wesley, John

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

William Shakespeare

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

Richard, Little

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Voltaire

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

White, William Allen

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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

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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

Aragon, Louis

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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Warburton, William

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Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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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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

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Allen, Woody

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Butler, Samuel

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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Karl Marx