Motivational Quotes

Reason

Everyone has his reasons.

- Renoir, Jean

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Lawrence, D. H.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

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

Luther, Martin

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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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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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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Sophocles

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Proverb, Welsh

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