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

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Baudelaire, Charles

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Pope, Alexander

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Bacon, Roger

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

William Shakespeare

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

Aragon, Louis

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

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Allen, Woody

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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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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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Sophocles

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

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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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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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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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His reasons are as two grains of wheat his in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

William Shakespeare

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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

Richard, Little

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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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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Karl Marx

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

Hegel, Georg