Motivational Quotes

Reason

No one ever excused his way to success.

- Dotto, Dave Del

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Dryden, John

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

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

William Shakespeare

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Richard, Little

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Wesley, John

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Allen, Woody

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

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

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

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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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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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 man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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.