Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Reason

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Petersen, Soren F.

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

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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.

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

Karl Marx

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

Swift, Jonathan

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.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

White, William Allen

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Wesley, John

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

Frost, Robert

35.

Every why hath a wherefore.

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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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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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Warburton, William

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