Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Frost, Robert

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

Yeats, William Butler

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Warburton, William

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Devoto, Bernard

10.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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 is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

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

14.

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Russell, Bertrand

18.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

19.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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 am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Connolly, Cyril

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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

Richard, Little

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Karl Marx

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

39.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Luther, Martin

44.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Bloom, Allan

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

Wesley, John

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

Eastwood, Clint