Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Voltaire

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Richard, Little

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

Karl Marx

12.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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

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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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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Wesley, John

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Warburton, William

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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.

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

Sophocles

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

Luther, Martin

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

Lowell, James Russell

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

40.

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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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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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 gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.