Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Morrison, Toni

Best Quotes about Reason

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Frost, Robert

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Sophocles

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

Richard, Little

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

Karl Marx

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

Aragon, Louis

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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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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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Dryden, John

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Russell, Bertrand

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Jerrold, Douglas William