Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Morrison, Toni

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

Wesley, John

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Richard, Little

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A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Eastwood, Clint

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Frost, Robert

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