Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

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

White, William Allen

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aragon, Louis

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Proverb, Welsh

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Allen, Woody

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

Wesley, John

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Karl Marx

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Richard, Little

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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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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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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 ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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