Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Eastwood, Clint

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Aragon, Louis

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

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

Wesley, John

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

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Dryden, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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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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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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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Karl Marx

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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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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

White, William Allen

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

Luther, Martin

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

William Shakespeare

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

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