Motivational Quotes

Reason

Everyone has his reasons.

- Renoir, Jean

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Butler, Samuel

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Aragon, Louis

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

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

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

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Swift, Jonathan

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Richard, Little

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wesley, John

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

Karl Marx

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Proverb, Welsh

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