Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Allen, Woody

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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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 gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Warburton, William

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Karl Marx

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

William Shakespeare