Motivational Quotes

Reason

Every why hath a wherefore.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Dryden, John

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

Bacon, Roger

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

William Shakespeare

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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.

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

Cioran, E. M.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Petersen, Soren F.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Bloom, Allan

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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 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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Aragon, Louis

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Butler, Samuel

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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information -- never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good -- he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

Plato

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Wesley, John

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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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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