Motivational Quotes

Reason

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

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

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

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

Dryden, John

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

11.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

12.

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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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

14.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

19.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

20.

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

21.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

22.

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

Frost, Robert

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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

24.

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

Karl Marx

25.

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

Warburton, William

26.

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

Proverb, Welsh

27.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

28.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

29.

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

Eastwood, Clint

30.

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

Bloom, Allan

33.

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

Sophocles

34.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

35.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information -- never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good -- he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

Plato

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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

38.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

39.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

40.

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Cioran, E. M.

44.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.