Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Abbagnano, Nicola

Best Quotes about Reason

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Swift, Jonathan

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Bacon, Roger

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

Phillips, Wendell

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.

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

Hegel, Georg

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.

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 am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Wesley, John

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Warburton, William

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

White, William Allen

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

23.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Karl Marx

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

William Shakespeare

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

29.

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

Richard, Little

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Frost, Robert

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Luther, Martin

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Sophocles

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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

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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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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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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Lowell, James Russell