Motivational Quotes

Reason

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sophocles

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

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

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

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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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 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 can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Wesley, John

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

White, William Allen

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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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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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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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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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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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