Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Reason

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

White, William Allen

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Yeats, William Butler

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Richard, Little

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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Luther, Martin

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Sophocles

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

Dryden, John

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

Pope, Alexander

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Allen, Woody

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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.