Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

1.

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

Sophocles

2.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

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

Warburton, William

4.

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

5.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

6.

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

7.

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

Sterne, Laurence

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

13.

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

Hegel, Georg

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

16.

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

Connolly, Cyril

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

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

19.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

20.

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

21.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

22.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

23.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

24.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

26.

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

Karl Marx

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

Luther, Martin

29.

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

Frost, Robert

30.

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

Bloom, Allan

31.

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

Eastwood, Clint

32.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

33.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

35.

Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.

36.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

37.

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

Devoto, Bernard

38.

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

39.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

40.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

41.

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

White, William Allen

42.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Swift, Jonathan

44.

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.

45.

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

Petersen, Soren F.

46.

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

47.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

48.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

49.

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

Pope, Alexander

50.

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