Motivational Quotes

Reason

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about 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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Wesley, John

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

White, William Allen

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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.

Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

Cioran, E. M.

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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Dryden, John

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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

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sophocles

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

Warburton, William

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Allen, Woody

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Karl Marx

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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.