Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Bacon, Roger

Best Quotes about Reason

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

White, William Allen

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

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Bloom, Allan

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

Richard, Little

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

Bacon, Roger

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Hegel, Georg

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

10.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

14.

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

15.

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

Sterne, Laurence

16.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

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

Karl Marx

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

Swift, Jonathan

20.

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

21.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Voltaire

23.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

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

Connolly, Cyril

26.

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

Sophocles

27.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Warburton, William

29.

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

Morrison, Toni

30.

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

Allen, Woody

31.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

36.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

38.

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

43.

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

44.

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

Phillips, Wendell

45.

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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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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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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.