Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Reason

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Voltaire

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Luther, Martin

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

Sophocles

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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Proverb, Welsh

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Warburton, William

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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 historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Richard, Little

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Every why hath a wherefore.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Dryden, John

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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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