Motivational Quotes

Reason

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

- Bloom, Allan

Best Quotes about Reason

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Voltaire

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Petersen, Soren F.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Karl Marx

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

Richard, Little

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Sophocles

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Wesley, John

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

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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Dryden, John

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

White, William Allen

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Our passion and principles are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Sterne, Laurence