Motivational Quotes

Reason

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

- Boileau, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Sophocles

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Connolly, Cyril

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Dryden, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Eastwood, Clint

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Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hegel, Georg

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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 a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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 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 more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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 person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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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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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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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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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