Top 100 Reason Emotion Quotes
#1. Overtures from a cold-blooded consideration of advantages to an emotional rejection based on their own bigotry. And if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins. *
David Weber
#2. When emotion is entirely left out of the reasoning picture, as happens in certain neurological conditions, reason turns out to be even more flawed than when emotion plays bad tricks on our decisions.
Antonio R. Damasio
#3. I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#4. We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion under the control of reason.
Thomas Lickona
#5. While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write.
Helen Garner
#6. If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist ... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit ... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.
Guillermo Del Toro
#7. Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
Richard Bach
#8. In moments of crisis, the reason people say that things move in slow motion is that the brain is struggling to process too much information at once. As a result, the brain slows it all down to digest each bit of emotion, pain, and reality.
Brad Meltzer
#9. Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.
Lidiya Ginzburg
#11. I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.
Angelina Jolie
#12. Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain are damaged in some way, we don't just lose the ability to laugh or cry, we lose the ability to make decisions.
Kevin Roberts
#13. The answer you seek lies in learning to combine the power of reason with the passion of emotion. If you let reason alone control your choices, you lose the power of intuition. If you let emotion control your choices, you will be a slave to every minor tragedy.
Roy Huff
#14. Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.
Veronica Roth
#15. Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
Eric Cantona
#16. The greatest endowment god bestowed on man. ... was reason!
He then took it away with emotion.
Ganasis
Zachania
Joseph Henry Gaines
#18. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
Albert Einstein
#19. No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.
Paul Theroux
#20. Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.
Les Greenberg
#21. Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#22. Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
Ram Dass
#23. We live in an illogical word, which is driven by reason and cannot be combated with emotion.
Kate Wars
#24. When there is a fight of reason versus emotion and the mind wonders which one to follow, in most times, emotion wins over reason. But it is reason that should win and emotion shouldn't.
Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb
#25. Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned both claims are accurate. And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only science.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#26. We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.
Kim Campbell
#27. Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.
Abraham Lincoln
#28. These past two days, I've seen a fire in your eyes that I never have before. Granted, it's mostly anger and frustration, but it's still emotion.
Rebecca Donovan
#29. A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"
Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.
Shunryu Suzuki
#30. You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#31. Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can become very angry for no reason. That's not just an emotion. That's a demon.
Stephen Baldwin
#33. Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.
Beryl Smalley
#34. In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.
Ford Madox Ford
#35. When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.
Barbara Mertz
#36. Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
Baruch Spinoza
#37. Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason
Gelett Burgess
#38. One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans
anything except reason.
Thomas Sowell
#39. Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.
John Wooden
#40. One of the characteristics of early modern thought was a tendency to assume binary contrasts. In an attempt to define phenomena more exactly, categories of experience that had once co-inhered were now set off against each other: faith and reason, intellect and emotion, and church and state.
Karen Armstrong
#41. Reason and emotion are not separate and opposed. Reason is nestled upon emotion and dependent upon it. Emotion assigns value to things, and reason can only make choices on the basis of those valuations. The human mind can be pragmatic because deep down it is romantic.
David Brooks
#42. The moment we find the reason behind an emotion ... the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.
Gloria Steinem
#43. Mercia wasn't a little-in-love sort of man. He was mad, dark passion, sweeping emotion, and complete loss of reason, with his gaunt male beauty, his wealth and power, and his haunted past.
Grace Burrowes
#44. If only the choice of whom you fall for were that easy. None of us choose who we love, Jask. If it were about reason and logic and choice, it would be science, not emotion. It would stop being magic.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#45. Piter spoke to Jessica. "I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat."
-Piter De Vries
Frank Herbert
#46. Jared's gray eyes bore into hers. His face filled with emotion, and his eyes looked to be just as tear-filled. Do you really not know the reason why I came? I came back for you. I'll always come back for you.
Chanda Hahn
#47. Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses.
Nalini Singh
#48. We live in an illogical world, driven by reason, which cannot be combated with emotion.
Christine Edwards
#49. Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.
Ilyas Kassam
#50. For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.
Halldor Laxness
#51. The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.
Stephen Kinzer
#52. We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.
John Dewey
#53. The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.
Bertrand Russell
#54. I hated her with everything I had because it was the only emotion I had to give. I realized, even then, I was giving her everything.
She was the bane of my existence, and at the very same, the reason I cared to exist.
B.B. Reid
#55. Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
Karen DeCrow
#56. Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.
John Corrigan
#57. A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for the instinctual drives must be satisfied.
Cyril Connolly
#58. The idea that my sucker is moving through thought itself, through emotion and reason, that memories, dreams and reflections should consist of jelly, is simply too strange to understand.
Henry Marsh
#59. Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to rationalize their choices.
Drayton Bird
#60. Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth.
Gary Chapman
#61. Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.
Nalini Singh
#62. I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.
Richard P. Feynman
#63. The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
Karl Kraus
#65. Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.
Sandra Newman
#66. Spirit gives us access to an emotion that cannot be felt in isolation - compassion. Compassion comes from the root word "to suffer with," and for that reason many people actually fear it.
Deepak Chopra
#67. Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action.
Donald Calne
#68. Reason is the steering wheel. Emotion is the gas pedal.
Anonymous
#69. This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder
#71. Kenny just shook his head and pointed at the now closed envelope, his look devoid of emotion. "She's pretty." He had always been good at not saying what he thought. It was the reason why he stayed out of trouble - unlike Jett. "Yeah.
J.C. Reed
#72. Stories are powerful because they speak to both our reason and to our emotion.
Jim Korkis
#73. There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
Criss Jami
#74. Every emotion that is in the human mind is there for a positive reason, and they must be used for positive reasons, anger is a positive emotion if it used correctly, so is aggression. God did not put anger and aggression in you just for negative purposes alone.
Amos Wilson
#75. A vast sector of modern advertising ... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.
Erich Fromm
#76. Like two side to a coin, there are two sides to life: your reason and emotional facets.
Ami Blackwelder
#77. Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.
Rollo May
#78. The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.
Voltaire
#79. Anger is the lowest emotion. It clouds the intellect and can make you do foolish things. You become blind to reason and react only with your body, without thinking. This leads to failure in every sphere. Uproot this evil from your system.
Anand Neelakantan
#80. One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.
David Brooks
#81. Emotions and beliefs are masters, reason their servant. Ignore emotion, and reason slumbers; trigger emotion, and reason comes rushing to help.
Henry M. Boettinger
#82. Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]
Agatha Christie
#83. They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.
Gouverneur Morris
#84. Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
J. Michael Straczynski
#85. Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
Nathaniel Branden
#86. She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Emotion without a value-added tax. Movement without danger. Alma finds her reality. She no longer has a reason to put herself at risk and go out into the hostile, degrading world.
Carlos Fuentes
#87. Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action.
Susan Oakey-Baker
#89. But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.
Kurt Godel
#90. In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
Cyril Connolly
#91. The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation ... We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.
John Dewey
#92. An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions
Ayn Rand
#93. I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
Adolf Hitler
#94. Love is a passionate powerful emotion; how could it follow any reason?
Debasish Mridha
#96. Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.
Luc De Clapiers
#97. Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.
Julia Cameron
#98. Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.
Dennis Lindley
#99. The main reason why your company can easily influence you is because "emotion and attitude are stronger than knowledge". What you see can overcome what you know. You can easily damp away what you already know when you are faced with the reality of what your senses tell you to do!
Israelmore Ayivor
#100. People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.
Jonah Peretti
