Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Reason

1.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

2.

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

Hegel, Georg

3.

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

4.

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

Cioran, E. M.

5.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

6.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

7.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

8.

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

Warburton, William

9.

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

10.

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

11.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

12.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

14.

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

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

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

Pope, Alexander

17.

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

18.

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

Connolly, Cyril

19.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

21.

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

Phillips, Wendell

22.

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

Swift, Jonathan

23.

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

Frost, Robert

24.

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

White, William Allen

25.

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

Dryden, John

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Karl Marx

29.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

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

32.

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

Sophocles

33.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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.

35.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

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

Petersen, Soren F.

38.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

39.

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

40.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Lowell, James Russell

41.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

42.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

43.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Eastwood, Clint

44.

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

Hazlitt, William

45.

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

Luther, Martin

46.

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

Hegel, Georg

47.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

48.

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

Wesley, John

49.

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

50.

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