Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Dryden, John

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hazlitt, William

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Luther, Martin

12.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

18.

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

Frost, Robert

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Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

40.

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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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Aragon, Louis

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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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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