Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Reason

1.

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

2.

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

William Shakespeare

3.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

4.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

5.

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

Proverb, Welsh

6.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

7.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Bacon, Roger

8.

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

9.

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

Hegel, Georg

10.

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

11.

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

Cioran, E. M.

12.

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

13.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Browne, Sir Thomas

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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

16.

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

Warburton, William

17.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

18.

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

Richard, Little

19.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

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

Swift, Jonathan

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

26.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

27.

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Petersen, Soren F.

28.

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

Devoto, Bernard

29.

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

Allen, Woody

30.

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

Hazlitt, William

31.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire

32.

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

Phillips, Wendell

33.

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

Frost, Robert

34.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

37.

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

Lowell, James Russell

38.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

39.

There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Morrison, Toni

40.

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

41.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Pope, Alexander

42.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

43.

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

Luther, Martin

44.

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

Russell, Bertrand

45.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

47.

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

Connolly, Cyril

48.

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

49.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

50.

Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.