Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Eastwood, Clint

Best Quotes about Reason

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Warburton, William

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Voltaire

10.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

White, William Allen

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

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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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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George 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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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Richard, Little

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Dryden, John

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

Allen, Woody

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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 divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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.