Motivational Quotes

Reason

No one ever excused his way to success.

- Dotto, Dave Del

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Petersen, Soren F.

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

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

Warburton, William

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Pope, Alexander

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Wesley, John

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

Richard, Little

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

Karl Marx

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dryden, John

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Sophocles