Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Hegel, Georg

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Luther, Martin

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

Karl Marx

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Wesley, John

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

10.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Allen, Woody

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Sophocles

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Petersen, Soren F.

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

Bacon, Roger

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hegel, Georg

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

44.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Richard, Little

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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information -- never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good -- he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

Plato

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas