Motivational Quotes

Reason

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

- Gallus, Gaius C.

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Swift, Jonathan

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Wesley, 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.

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

Dryden, John

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

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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

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Karl Marx

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

Allen, Woody

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Hegel, Georg

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Warburton, William

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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No one ever excused his way to success.