Motivational Quotes

Reason

Let reason govern desire.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Reason

1.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

3.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

7.

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

Karl Marx

8.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

9.

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

10.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

12.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

13.

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

14.

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

Warburton, William

15.

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

Wesley, John

16.

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.

17.

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

Proverb, Welsh

18.

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.

19.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

21.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

Aragon, Louis

23.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

24.

There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Morrison, Toni

25.

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

Hegel, Georg

26.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

27.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Bacon, Roger

28.

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

29.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Bloom, Allan

30.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

31.

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

Frost, Robert

32.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

33.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Lowell, James Russell

34.

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

35.

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

White, William Allen

36.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

37.

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

Devoto, Bernard

38.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

39.

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

Sterne, Laurence

40.

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

41.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

42.

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

Connolly, Cyril

43.

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

44.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Petersen, Soren F.

46.

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

Phillips, Wendell

47.

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

Eastwood, Clint

48.

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

Sophocles

49.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

50.

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