Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dryden, John

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.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Bacon, Roger

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

10.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

11.

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

12.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

13.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

14.

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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 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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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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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

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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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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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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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Pope, Alexander

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

25.

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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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

29.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

38.

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

Hegel, Georg

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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

40.

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

Richard, Little

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

William Shakespeare

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Sophocles

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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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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 a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.