Motivational Quotes

Reason

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

- Boileau, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Reason

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Karl Marx

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire

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

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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Welsh

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Warburton, William

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Sophocles

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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 whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Dryden, John

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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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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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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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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 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 harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

White, William Allen

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

Hegel, Georg

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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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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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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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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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