Motivational Quotes

Reason

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about Reason

1.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

2.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

3.

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

Pope, Alexander

4.

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

5.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

6.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

7.

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

Dryden, John

8.

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

9.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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.

13.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

14.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

15.

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

Bacon, Roger

17.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

18.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

19.

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

Frost, Robert

20.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

22.

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.

23.

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

Russell, Bertrand

24.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

25.

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

Eastwood, Clint

26.

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.

27.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

28.

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

Karl Marx

29.

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

Lowell, James Russell

30.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

Warburton, William

32.

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

33.

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

Connolly, Cyril

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

35.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

36.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

37.

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

Proverb, Welsh

38.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

39.

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

40.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

44.

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

45.

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

Richard, Little

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

Hegel, Georg

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Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

Bronte, Charlotte

48.

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

Yeats, William Butler

49.

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

Wesley, John

50.

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

Aragon, Louis