Motivational Quotes

Reason

Our passion and principles are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

- Sterne, Laurence

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Pope, Alexander

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Phillips, Wendell

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.

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

Allen, Woody

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Hegel, Georg

10.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

11.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

13.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

William Shakespeare

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Richard, Little

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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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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Karl Marx

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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 is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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.

43.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Warburton, William

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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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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