Motivational Quotes

Reason

Let reason govern desire.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

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 more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

White, William Allen

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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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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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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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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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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Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Karl Marx

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Wesley, John

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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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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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