Motivational Quotes

Reason

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

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

Karl Marx

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Bloom, Allan

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Hegel, Georg

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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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 the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dryden, John

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Frost, Robert

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Sophocles

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

Aragon, Louis

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

White, William Allen

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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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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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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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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

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

Richard, Little

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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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Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

William Shakespeare

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