Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Dryden, John

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

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Wesley, John

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

William Shakespeare

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Sophocles

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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