Motivational Quotes

Reason

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

- Boileau, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Warburton, William

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

White, William Allen

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

Dryden, John

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Frost, Robert

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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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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 lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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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 is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Sophocles

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Welsh

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Connolly, Cyril

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

34.

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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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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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Luther, Martin

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

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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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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wesley, John