Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Frost, Robert

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Karl Marx

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Connolly, Cyril

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Wesley, John

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

Warburton, William

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

White, William Allen

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Hegel, Georg

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Sophocles

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

Aragon, Louis