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

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

Aragon, Louis

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Sophocles

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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

11.

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.

12.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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

Karl Marx

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

18.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Eastwood, Clint

20.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Warburton, William

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

Dryden, John

28.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

32.

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

Connolly, Cyril

33.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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

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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 noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

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

Frost, Robert

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

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