Motivational Quotes

Reason

Every why hath a wherefore.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Karl Marx

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

Luther, Martin

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Allen, Woody

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

Wesley, John

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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 lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Dryden, John

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.