Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Reason

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Warburton, William

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Dryden, John

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

Karl Marx

10.

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

Frost, Robert

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

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sophocles

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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

19.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Welsh

21.

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Richard, Little

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine