Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Reason

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

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Petersen, Soren F.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Hegel, Georg

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

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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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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

William Shakespeare

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Richard, Little

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