Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Reason

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

White, William Allen

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

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hegel, Georg

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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 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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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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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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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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 gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hazlitt, William

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Richard, Little

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

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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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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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Aragon, Louis

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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 tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Eastwood, Clint

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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