Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Proverb, Welsh

Best Quotes about Reason

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

White, William Allen

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Petersen, Soren F.

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

Wesley, John

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

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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 is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Sophocles

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

Richard, Little

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Butler, Samuel

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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 gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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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.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Karl Marx

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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.