Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Aragon, Louis

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

10.

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

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

13.

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

White, William Allen

14.

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

Eastwood, Clint

15.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

16.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

17.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

18.

Our passion and principles are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Sterne, Laurence

19.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

20.

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

Karl Marx

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Connolly, Cyril

26.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

27.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire

28.

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

Devoto, Bernard

29.

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

Dryden, John

30.

He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Allen, Woody

32.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

33.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

Warburton, William

35.

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

Hegel, Georg

36.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

37.

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

Richard, Little

38.

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

39.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

40.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

41.

There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Morrison, Toni

42.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

44.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

45.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Bloom, Allan

47.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

48.

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

Hazlitt, William

49.

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

50.

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

Sophocles