Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

Hegel, Georg

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Sophocles

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

Richard, Little

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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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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Warburton, William

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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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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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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Karl Marx

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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 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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Butler, Samuel

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Dryden, John