Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

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

Aragon, Louis

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Fromm, Erich

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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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A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Devoto, Bernard

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

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

Richard, Little

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

Karl Marx

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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.