Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Devoto, Bernard

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

White, William Allen

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

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

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Hazlitt, William

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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.

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

Warburton, William

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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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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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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 unus'd.

William Shakespeare

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Karl Marx

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Morrison, Toni

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Dryden, John

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

Bacon, Roger

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

Wesley, John

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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