Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- White, William Allen

Best Quotes about Reason

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Lowell, James Russell

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

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Hegel, Georg

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

Warburton, William

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.

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

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

Bloom, Allan

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

William Shakespeare

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

Luther, Martin

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

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

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

Richard, Little

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Sophocles

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Every why hath a wherefore.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb, Welsh