Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Proverb, Welsh

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Warburton, William

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

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

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

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Bacon, Roger

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Phillips, Wendell

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Karl Marx

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Dryden, John

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

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

Wesley, John

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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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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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.