Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Sterne, Laurence

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Warburton, William

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

14.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Richard, Little

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Wesley, John

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

William Shakespeare

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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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As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

41.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Dryden, John

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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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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

Aragon, Louis

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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