Motivational Quotes

Reason

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Reason

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Richard, Little

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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

12.

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 now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Voltaire

25.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

27.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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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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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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Sophocles

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

Karl Marx

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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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

47.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Wesley, John