Motivational Quotes

Reason

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.

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Lowell, James Russell

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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.

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

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Voltaire

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

Aragon, Louis

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius 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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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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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Eastwood, Clint

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dryden, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Warburton, William

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Karl Marx

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

White, William Allen

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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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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron