Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

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Best Quotes about Reason

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Bloom, Allan

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Karl Marx

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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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

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

Dryden, John

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

Richard, Little

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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 gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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 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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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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.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Wesley, John

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