Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

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

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Karl Marx

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

Hegel, Georg

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Aragon, Louis

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Sophocles

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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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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

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

White, William Allen

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Wesley, John

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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

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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

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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