Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

There's no woman that's crazy for no reason. That behavior is a reaction. Believe that.

There's not usually one reason why we do anything and, in fact, often we don't know why we've done what we've done, especially what we have said or why, for instance, in conversation, which can be very tricky. Finally, we say something and think, "Why did we say that?" In retrospect we might know.

There's really no reason to rehash something that you've already seen.

There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind.

There's the reason that I think that red states don't trust the government. They see it as an instrument of their own marginalization, because they feel especially Democratic administrations have favored blacks, women, immigrants, refugees. And all of these groups, they see as getting ahead of them, as almost like line-cutters, pushing them back in line.

There was always a slug on the lettuce. This was too good to be true. He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David. He wasn't going to let his gaurd down just yet. Being carful had kept him alive this far. There was no reason to stop being careful now.

There was a play that was written by who I think is America's greatest playwright, and he wrote a small part in it for me. It was going to open in Chicago, and then go to New York. But then, he died. It was Arthur Miller. That was the reason I turned Lost down.

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

There's plenty of opportunity for everyone, so there's no reason to worry about somebody else's success, either saying you couldn't do this so she's better than you, or she's doing it so you can't. No, she's doing it so you can.

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.

There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.

There were no rules. There's no guide to follow. I would just trust my instincts for some unknown reason. Something inside me would say, "This guitar is not loud enough," and I wouldn't know why. You never know how to reach that point until you've reached it.

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of the medium, the distance of the object, and the disposition of the organ, in order to render them, within their sphere, the proper criteria of truth and falsehood.

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

The things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don’t are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It’s our burden.

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk.

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.