Motivational Quotes

Reason

To reason about love is to lose reason.

- Boufflers

Best Quotes about Reason

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

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Pope, Alexander

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Voltaire

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Karl Marx

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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

11.

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

Eastwood, Clint

12.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

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

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

Allen, Woody

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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

18.

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

Petersen, Soren F.

19.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

21.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Proverb, Welsh

23.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

26.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Luther, Martin

28.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Sophocles

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

Dryden, John

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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His reasons are as two grains of wheat his in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Bloom, Allan