Motivational Quotes

Reason

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

Best Quotes about Reason

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Richard, Little

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Voltaire

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

Eastwood, Clint

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Allen, Woody

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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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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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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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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 ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George 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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Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Wesley, John

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

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

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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 gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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

Aragon, Louis

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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

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

Warburton, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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