Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Reason

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

White, William Allen

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Frost, Robert

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Hazlitt, William

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

23.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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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 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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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 has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.

Hegel, Georg

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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.

42.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

44.

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

Richard, Little

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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