Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Reason

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

13.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Bacon, Roger

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

17.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

18.

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

Warburton, William

19.

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

Frost, Robert

20.

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.

21.

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

Cioran, E. M.

22.

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Petersen, Soren F.

23.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

24.

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

Phillips, Wendell

25.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

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

27.

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

Richard, Little

28.

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

Aragon, Louis

29.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Allen, Woody

33.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

34.

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

35.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

36.

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

37.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

38.

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

39.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

40.

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

Sterne, Laurence

41.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

42.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

43.

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

44.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

45.

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

46.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

47.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

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

Butler, Samuel

49.

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

50.

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