Motivational Quotes

Reason

To reason about love is to lose reason.

- Boufflers

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Connolly, Cyril

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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.

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Warburton, William

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Karl Marx

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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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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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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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A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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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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 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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Sophocles

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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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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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 a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Morrison, Toni