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

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 unus'd.

William Shakespeare

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

Sophocles

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

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Voltaire

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Dryden, John

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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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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Luther, Martin

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Richard, Little

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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Warburton, William

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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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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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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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Baum, Lyman Frank

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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 lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Aragon, Louis

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.