Motivational Quotes

Reason

Every why hath a wherefore.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Reason

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Wesley, John

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

Hegel, Georg

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

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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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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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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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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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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Richard, Little

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

Warburton, William

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

Sophocles

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

William Shakespeare

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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.

39.

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

Frost, Robert

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

42.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Dryden, John

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Butler, Samuel