Motivational Quotes

Reason

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Dryden, John

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

Allen, Woody

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

Frost, Robert

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

White, William Allen

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Karl Marx

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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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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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

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Wesley, John

30.

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

Richard, Little

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Hegel, Georg

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Sophocles

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas