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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
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"Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else." (Unknown, Source - Time and Time Management)

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Browse Quotations about Reason

A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
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.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Everyone has his reasons.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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.
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
I am never upset for the reason I think.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
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.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
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.
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.
Let reason govern desire.
Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
No one ever excused his way to success.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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.
Reason can in general do more than blind force.
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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.
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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.
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
Reason is emotion for the sexless.
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.
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
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.
Reason over passion.
Reason should direct and appetite obey.
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.
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
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.
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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.
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
The more you reason the less you create.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.