Motivational Quotes

Reason

To reason about love is to lose reason.

- Boufflers

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Eastwood, Clint

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 madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Warburton, William

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Petersen, Soren F.

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

Sophocles

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Karl Marx

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

Voltaire

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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

32.

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

Richard, Little

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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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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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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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