Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Sterne, Laurence

Best Quotes about Reason

1.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Devoto, Bernard

2.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

3.

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

Aragon, Louis

4.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

5.

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

Luther, Martin

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Proverb, Welsh

9.

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

10.

Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

11.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

12.

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Phillips, Wendell

13.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

14.

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.

15.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

16.

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.

17.

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

Richard, Little

18.

The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

19.

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

20.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

21.

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

22.

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

Swift, Jonathan

23.

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

Hegel, Georg

24.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

28.

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

Cioran, E. M.

29.

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

30.

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

Morrison, Toni

31.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

32.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Frost, Robert

33.

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

34.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

35.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

36.

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

Lowell, James Russell

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Connolly, Cyril

39.

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Hegel, Georg

43.

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

Karl Marx

44.

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