Motivational Quotes

Reason

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Reason

Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Connolly, Cyril

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Froude, James A.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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The more you reason the less you create.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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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

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hegel, Georg

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No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

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

Luther, Martin

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To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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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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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Shaw, George 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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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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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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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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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von