Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Bloom, Allan

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

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

Karl Marx

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Bacon, Roger

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

William Shakespeare

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

Wesley, John

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

Warburton, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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