Motivational Quotes

Reason

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Richard, Little

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

Voltaire

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Bacon, Roger

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Warburton, William

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

10.

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

11.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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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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

14.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

16.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

18.

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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

21.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

22.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

24.

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

Wesley, John

25.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Hegel, Georg

27.

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

28.

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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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Voltaire

30.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

31.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

White, William Allen

33.

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

34.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

35.

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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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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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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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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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.

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

Karl Marx

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

Russell, Bertrand

43.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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 is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

Luther, Martin

49.

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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

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