Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Reason

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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.

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

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

Morrison, Toni

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

Sophocles

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 gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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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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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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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Dryden, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich