Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Karl Marx

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Warburton, William

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

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

Voltaire

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Voltaire

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

Sophocles

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

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

Devoto, Bernard

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Karl Marx

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

White, William Allen

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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 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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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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

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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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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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