Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Bloom, Allan

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

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.

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Russell, Bertrand

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Hegel, Georg

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

William Shakespeare

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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Allen, Woody

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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

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

Dryden, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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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 lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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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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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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Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.