Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

White, William Allen

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Voltaire

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

Richard, Little

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

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

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Voltaire

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Dryden, John

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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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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Allen, Woody

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Karl Marx

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Wesley, John

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

Warburton, William

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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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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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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