Motivational Quotes

Reason

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

- Boileau, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Aragon, Louis

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Richard, Little

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

Karl Marx

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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 noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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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 the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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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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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Devoto, Bernard

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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 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 gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De