Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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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 always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Karl Marx

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Wesley, John

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He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Allen, Woody

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

Richard, Little

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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

White, William Allen

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

Luther, Martin

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

William Shakespeare

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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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I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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