Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Reason

1.

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

White, William Allen

2.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

3.

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

4.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

5.

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

Warburton, William

6.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

7.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

8.

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

Dryden, John

9.

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

10.

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

Petersen, Soren F.

11.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Devoto, Bernard

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

16.

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

17.

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

18.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

19.

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

Richard, Little

20.

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

21.

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

Allen, Woody

22.

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

Sophocles

23.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

24.

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

Wesley, John

25.

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

26.

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

Cioran, E. M.

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

Karl Marx

31.

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

Bloom, Allan

32.

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

Hegel, Georg

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Swift, Jonathan

36.

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.

37.

Our passion and principles are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Sterne, Laurence

38.

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

Hazlitt, William

39.

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

40.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

41.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

42.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

43.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.