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

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

Richard, Little

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Karl Marx

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

Devoto, Bernard

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.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hazlitt, William

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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Wesley, John

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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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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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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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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