Motivational Quotes

Reason

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Wesley, John

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Phillips, Wendell

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.

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

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Eastwood, Clint

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

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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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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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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Warburton, William

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

Karl Marx

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

William Shakespeare

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

Baum, Lyman Frank

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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.

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