Motivational Quotes

Reason

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

- Gallus, Gaius C.

Best Quotes about Reason

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Bloom, Allan

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Hegel, Georg

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.

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

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Wesley, John

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

Petersen, Soren F.

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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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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

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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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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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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Our passion and principles are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Sophocles

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Voltaire

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.