Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

Fromm, Erich

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Voltaire

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

11.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

12.

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

Morrison, Toni

13.

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.

14.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

15.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

17.

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

Eastwood, Clint

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

24.

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

25.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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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

27.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

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

Russell, Bertrand

33.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

34.

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

Allen, Woody

35.

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

Devoto, Bernard

36.

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

Richard, Little

37.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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

Swift, Jonathan

42.

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

Karl Marx

43.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

44.

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

45.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Wesley, John

49.

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

Hazlitt, William