Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Bloom, Allan

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

Eastwood, Clint

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Wesley, John

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Luther, Martin

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Richard, Little

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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Devoto, Bernard

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Warburton, William

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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.