Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hazlitt, William

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

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

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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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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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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

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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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Wesley, John

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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

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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Dryden, John

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

Connolly, Cyril

42.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Welsh

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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

William Shakespeare