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

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Voltaire

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

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

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Rivarol, Antoine

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

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

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

A Course In Miracles

13.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dotto, Dave Del

14.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Hill, Aaron

15.

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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Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gallus, Gaius C.

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Kant, Immanuel

18.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Hamilton, Alexander

19.

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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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

22.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Lowell, James Russell

23.

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

Eastwood, Clint

24.

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

25.

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

Connolly, Cyril

26.

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

Devoto, Bernard

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Baudelaire, Charles

30.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

31.

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

Proverb, Welsh

32.

There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Morrison, Toni

33.

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

Voltaire

34.

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

Sophocles

35.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Boileau, Nicholas

36.

Everyone has his reasons.

Renoir, Jean

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Let reason govern desire.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Abbagnano, Nicola

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Petersen, Soren F.