Motivational Quotes

Reason

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

- Boileau, Nicholas

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

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Bacon, Roger

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

Frost, Robert

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

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

Morrison, Toni

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Richard, Little

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

Wesley, John

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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Luther, Martin

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Warburton, 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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Sophocles

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hazlitt, William

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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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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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

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

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

Karl Marx

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Aragon, Louis

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

William Shakespeare

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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