Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Bloom, Allan

Best Quotes about Reason

1.

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

Cioran, E. M.

2.

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

Voltaire

3.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

4.

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

Dryden, John

5.

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

6.

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

Sophocles

7.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

8.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

12.

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

Proverb, Welsh

13.

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

14.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

15.

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

Hegel, Georg

16.

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.

17.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

18.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

19.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

21.

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

Morrison, Toni

22.

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

23.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Connolly, Cyril

25.

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

Warburton, William

26.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

29.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

30.

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

31.

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

Wesley, John

32.

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

Devoto, Bernard

33.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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.

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

36.

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Jerrold, Douglas William

37.

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

38.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

Hazlitt, William

40.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

41.

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