Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Luther, Martin

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Devoto, Bernard

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Warburton, William

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Dryden, John

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

Aragon, Louis

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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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

White, William Allen

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

Richard, Little

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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.