Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Morrison, Toni

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Morrison, Toni

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

Our passion and principles are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Karl Marx

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Connolly, Cyril

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Wesley, John

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Hegel, Georg

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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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.

35.

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.

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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

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

Warburton, William

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Luther, Martin

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Swift, Jonathan