Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Richard, Little

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

10.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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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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

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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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Warburton, William

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Sophocles

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Dryden, John

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Reason gains all people by compelling none.