Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

1.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

2.

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

Sophocles

3.

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

Hegel, Georg

4.

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

5.

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

Morrison, Toni

6.

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

7.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

8.

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.

9.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

10.

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

Connolly, Cyril

11.

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

Bacon, Roger

12.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

13.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

14.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

18.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Browne, Sir Thomas

20.

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

Karl Marx

21.

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

Eastwood, Clint

22.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Allen, Woody

23.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

24.

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

Luther, Martin

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

Pope, Alexander

27.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

28.

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

29.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

Morgan, John Pierpont

30.

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

Phillips, Wendell

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

34.

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

Russell, Bertrand

35.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

36.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

37.

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

Dryden, John

38.

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

Devoto, Bernard

39.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

40.

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

41.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

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

43.

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

Wesley, John

44.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

45.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

46.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

47.

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

Voltaire

48.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

49.

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

Frost, Robert

50.

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