Motivational Quotes

Reason

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

- Abbagnano, Nicola

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Sophocles

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Allen, Woody

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

Karl Marx

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Hegel, Georg

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

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

Voltaire

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Abbagnano, Nicola

10.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

11.

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

Dryden, John

12.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Warburton, William

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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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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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Luther, Martin

22.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

White, William Allen

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

27.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Wesley, John

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

32.

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

Richard, Little

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

Proverb, Welsh

35.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

36.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Bloom, Allan

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean