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

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

Yeats, William Butler

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Cioran, E. M.

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.

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

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

Proverb, Welsh

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

10.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

11.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

12.

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 person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

14.

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

18.

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

Karl Marx

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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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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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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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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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Wesley, John

32.

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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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

35.

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

Sophocles

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

Richard, Little

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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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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

40.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Warburton, 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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

White, William Allen

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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

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

Hegel, Georg