Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Sophocles

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Hegel, Georg

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Warburton, William

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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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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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 very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hazlitt, William

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Karl Marx

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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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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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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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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Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pope, Alexander

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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 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 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 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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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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