Motivational Quotes

Reason

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Reason

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

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire

There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Morrison, Toni

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.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Wesley, John

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

17.

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

Cioran, E. M.

18.

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

19.

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

Karl Marx

20.

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

21.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

22.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

23.

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

Petersen, Soren F.

24.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

25.

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

Russell, Bertrand

26.

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

Proverb, Welsh

27.

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

Dryden, John

28.

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

29.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

30.

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

Sophocles

31.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

32.

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

33.

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

Frost, Robert

34.

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

35.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

Aragon, Louis

37.

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

White, William Allen

38.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

39.

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

Connolly, Cyril

40.

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

Devoto, Bernard

41.

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

42.

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

Warburton, William

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

45.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

46.

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

47.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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