Motivational Quotes

Reason

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Reason

1.

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

2.

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

Eastwood, Clint

3.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

4.

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

5.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

6.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

10.

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

Swift, Jonathan

11.

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

Warburton, William

12.

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

13.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Bloom, Allan

14.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

15.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

16.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

17.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

18.

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

19.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Frost, Robert

20.

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

Proverb, Welsh

21.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

22.

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

Karl Marx

23.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

24.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Hegel, Georg

26.

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

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

Phillips, Wendell

28.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Voltaire

29.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

31.

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

Cioran, E. M.

32.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.

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

Dryden, John

34.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

35.

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

Hegel, Georg

36.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

37.

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

Sophocles

38.

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

Hazlitt, William

39.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

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.

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

43.

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

Russell, Bertrand

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

Devoto, Bernard

49.

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

50.

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

Pope, Alexander