Motivational Quotes

Reason

No one ever excused his way to success.

- Dotto, Dave Del

Best Quotes about Reason

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

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.

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Bacon, Roger

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Allen, Woody

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

White, William Allen

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Hazlitt, William

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Dryden, John

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

Warburton, William

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

Karl Marx