Motivational Quotes

Reason

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Reason

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Hazlitt, William

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Butler, Samuel

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Hegel, Georg

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

10.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

11.

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

Frost, Robert

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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.

15.

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

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

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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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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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

22.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Devoto, Bernard

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

30.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Richard, Little

34.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

35.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

36.

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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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

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

Hegel, Georg

39.

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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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

45.

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

Luther, Martin

47.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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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 the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

50.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare