Motivational Quotes

Reason

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

- Gallus, Gaius C.

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Pope, Alexander

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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.

Our passion and principles are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Lowell, James Russell

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Warburton, William

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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 gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Petersen, Soren F.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Eastwood, Clint

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

White, William Allen

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

Aragon, Louis

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

Sophocles

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

Richard, Little

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.