Motivational Quotes

Reason

Let reason govern desire.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Reason

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Wesley, John

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Hegel, Georg

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

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

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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 whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

Cioran, E. M.

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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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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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Connolly, Cyril

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Richard, Little

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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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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