Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Bacon, Roger

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

Petersen, Soren F.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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 is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

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

William Shakespeare

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Hegel, Georg

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Hazlitt, William

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Hegel, Georg

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

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Wesley, John

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Warburton, William

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To reason about love is to lose reason.