Motivational Quotes

Reason

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.

Best Quotes about Reason

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.

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

Bloom, Allan

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

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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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Aragon, Louis

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wesley, John

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

Karl Marx

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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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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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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 lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

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

Richard, Little

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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

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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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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.