Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Dryden, John

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

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

Sophocles

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Warburton, William

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Welsh

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Phillips, Wendell

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As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Wesley, John

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Eastwood, Clint

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Luther, Martin

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Frost, Robert

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