Motivational Quotes

Reason

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.

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Frost, Robert

Our passion and principles are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Warburton, William

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

Wesley, John

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Richard, Little

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

Dryden, John

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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.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Aragon, Louis

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Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

Luther, Martin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

White, William Allen

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Karl Marx

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

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

Beecher, Catharine Esther