Motivational Quotes

Reason

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Allen, Woody

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

Swift, Jonathan

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Warburton, William

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

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Bloom, Allan

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Connolly, Cyril

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Dryden, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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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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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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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 the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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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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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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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 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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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