Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

Our faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.

Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let us recognize that we are not the ultimate triumph but rather we are beads on a string. Let us behave with decency to the beads that were strung before us and hope modestly that the beads that come after us will not hold us of no account simply because we are dead.

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

Our love is the reason romance was created.

Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our minds happen to be close to true. Well, there is no particular reason to suppose that the intersection of true theories and theories that are accessible to the mind is very large. It may not be very large.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence

Our reason is our law.

Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Our schedules haven't permitted us to do shows in a while and now we're gonna do it but that's it. It's cool, we'll see what happens, I'm just excited to do it. We never broke up, there's no reason to, why would I? We don't have to break up.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Over the last few years, Greece has been in the world spotlight for all the wrong reasons - because of its economic crisis, and then because of the refugees from Syria.

Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.

Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.

Passion cooks. Reason cleans.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

Part of the reason we're all committed to coordinated stimulus is we want to stimulate the global economy. We're in a global economy, not just our national economies.p

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

People are not hungry because we dont produce enough. People are hungry for political reasons.

Peggy Noonan is not as good a columnist as my colleague Kathleen Parker, in my opinion, but they share something related to their Pulitzers. Kathleen won in in 2010. They won it for a similar reason. They broke from their crowd, and sprinted away. They delivered the politically unexpected take, at some peril to their readership.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.

People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.

people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.

People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.

People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god.

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.

People have a lot less leniency for some reason for women straying from a relationship than they do for men.

People go into things for the wrong reasons.

People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place.