Reason Quotes
I am never upset for the reason I think.Reason
A Course In Miracles
Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity Eastern Philosophy
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
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Abbagnano, Nicola
Philosopher Author
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
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Allen, Woody
1935 American Director Screenwriter Actor Comedian
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
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Aquinas, St. Thomas
1225-1274 Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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Aquinas, St. Thomas
1225-1274 Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian
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.
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Aragon, Louis
1897-1982 French Poet
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
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Aragon, Louis
1897-1982 French Poet
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
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Bacon, Roger
1214-1294 British Philosopher Scientist
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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Baudelaire, Charles
1821-1867 French Poet
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
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Beecher, Catharine Esther
1800-1878 American Educator Writer
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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Bloom, Allan
1930-1992 American Educator Author
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
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Boileau, Nicholas
1636-1711 French Literary Poet Critic
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
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Bolingbroke, Henry
1678-1751 British Politician
To reason about love is to lose reason.
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Boufflers
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.
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Bronte, Charlotte
1816-1855 British Novelist
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
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Browne, Sir Thomas
1605-1682 British Author Physician Philosopher
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Butler, Samuel
1612-1680 British Poet Satirist
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
1741-1794 French Writer Journalist Playwright
The more you reason the less you create.
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Chandler, Raymond
1888-1959 American Author
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.
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Chesterfield, Lord
1694-1773 British Statesman Author
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
Reason should direct and appetite obey.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
Let reason govern desire.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
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Cioran, E. M.
1911 Rumanian-born French Philosopher
The person who is master of their passions is reason s slave.
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Connolly, Cyril
1903-1974 British Critic
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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Devoto, Bernard
1897-1955 American Writer Critic Historian
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.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
No one ever excused his way to success.
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Dotto, Dave Del
American Businessman Author
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
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Drummond, William
1585-1649 Celtic Poet
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Dryden, John
1631-1700 British Poet Dramatist Critic
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Fielding, Henry
1707-1754 British Novelist Dramatist
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.
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Fromm, Erich
1900-1980 American Psychologist
Don t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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Frost, Robert
1875-1963 American Poet
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
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Froude, James A.
1818-1894 British Historian
Reason can in general do more than blind force.
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Gallus, Gaius C.
c70-26 BC Gaul Poet
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.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
I ll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
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Gaskell, Elizabeth
1810-1865 British Novelist
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
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.
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Guin, Ursula K. Le
1929 American Author
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
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Hamilton, Alexander
1757-1804 American Statesman
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.
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Havel, Vaclav
1936 Czech Playwright President
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.
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Hegel, Georg
1770-1831 German Philosopher
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
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Hegel, Georg
1770-1831 German Philosopher
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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Hill, Aaron
1685-1750 British Dramatist
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Kant, Immanuel
1724-1804 German Philosopher
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.
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Lawrence, D. H.
1885-1930 British Author
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.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1819-1892 American Poet
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Lowell, James Russell
1819-1891 American Poet Critic Editor
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
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Luther, Martin
1483-1546 German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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Maeterlinck, Maurice
1862-1949 Belgian Author
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
1533-1592 French Philosopher Essayist
A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.
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Morgan, John Pierpont
1837-1913 American Banker Financier Art Collector
There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Morrison, Toni
1931 African-American Novelist
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
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O'Malley, Austin
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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Ovid
BC 43-18 AD Roman Poet
Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.
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Petersen, Soren F.
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.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
On life s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Pope, Alexander
1688-1744 British Poet Critic Translator
Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
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Proverb, Italian
Sayings of Italian Origin
Reason is the wise man s guide, example the fool s.
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Proverb, Welsh
Sayings of Welsh Origin
Everyone has his reasons.
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Renoir, Jean
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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Richard, Little
American Entertainer
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
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Rivarol, Antoine
1753-1801 French Journalist Epigrammatist
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
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Robinson, James H.
American Businessman Chairman of American Express
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.
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Rumi, Jalal-Uddin
1207-1273 Persian Sufi Mystic Poet
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
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Santayana, George
1863-1952 American Philosopher Poet
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
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Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
1759-1805 German Dramatist Poet Historian
Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
Strong reasons make strong actions.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
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Smith, Sydney
1771-1845 British Writer Clergyman
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Sophocles
BC 495-406 Greek Tragic Poet
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
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Sterne, Laurence
1713-1768 British Author
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Swift, Jonathan
1667-1745 Anglo-Irish Satirist
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
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Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De
1754-1838 French Statesman
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
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Taylor, Jeremy
1613-1667 British Churchman Writer
Reason over passion.
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Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
1919 Canadian Prime Minister (1968-79 1980-4)
Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.
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Unknown, Source
You can t reason someone out of a position they didn t reason themselves into.
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Unknown, Source
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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Voltaire
1694-1778 French Historian Writer
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
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Voltaire
1694-1778 French Historian Writer
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
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Warburton, William
1698-1779 Bishop of Gloucester
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
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Wesley, John
1703-1791 British Preacher Founder of Methodism
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
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Whipple, Edwin P.
1819-1886 American Essayist
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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White, William Allen
1868-1944 American Editor Writer
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
Reason is emotion for the sexless.
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Williams, Heathcote
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Yeats, William Butler
1865-1939 Irish Poet Playwright