Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Reason

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lowell, James Russell

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

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

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

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

10.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Luther, Martin

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Richard, Little

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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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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

28.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Aragon, Louis

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

37.

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

Sophocles

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

Dryden, John

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Devoto, Bernard

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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