Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

William Shakespeare

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Richard, Little

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

Karl Marx

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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 a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Russell, Bertrand

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Welsh

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Wesley, John

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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 lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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.