Motivational Quotes

Reason

The more you reason the less you create.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Reason

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

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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.

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

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Sophocles

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

Wesley, John

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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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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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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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It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Warburton, William

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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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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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 very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Dryden, John

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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