Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Eastwood, Clint

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Allen, Woody

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

White, William Allen

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Bloom, Allan

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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

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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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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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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 is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

Luther, Martin

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

29.

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

Richard, Little

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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

William Shakespeare

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Phillips, Wendell

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Aragon, Louis

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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