Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Frost, Robert

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

Karl Marx

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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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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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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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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

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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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What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. 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 unused.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Richard, Little

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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 a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Warburton, William

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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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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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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Sophocles

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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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