Motivational Quotes

Reason

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

Wesley, John

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Cioran, E. M.

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.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Butler, Samuel

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Allen, Woody

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Luther, Martin

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

William Shakespeare

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Sophocles

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

Hazlitt, William

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Parker, Theodore

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

White, William Allen

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Hegel, Georg

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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