Motivational Quotes

Reason

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

- Hegel, Georg

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Warburton, William

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Aragon, Louis

10.

What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.

Hegel, Georg

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Welsh

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Dryden, John

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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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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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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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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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