Motivational Quotes

Reason

No one ever excused his way to success.

- Dotto, Dave Del

Best Quotes about Reason

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Petersen, Soren F.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

Richard, Little

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

Eastwood, Clint

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

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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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Voltaire

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Warburton, William

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth