Motivational Quotes

Reason

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

- Petersen, Soren F.

Best Quotes about Reason

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

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Hegel, Georg

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

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Bacon, Roger

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Dryden, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Voltaire

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Warburton, William

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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

Sophocles

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Richard, Little

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De