Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Baudelaire, Charles

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Aragon, Louis

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Swift, Jonathan

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Phillips, Wendell

35.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Bloom, Allan

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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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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Karl Marx

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

Richard, Little