Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.

The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

The first rule of trading - there are probably many first rules - is don't get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don't understand.

The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.

The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now.

The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

The Gospel that worked in the 20th Century may not work in the 21st Century. The reason is because it is truncated. It only speaks of "Sin and Salvation" and not of the COSMIC GOSPEL that transforms all things.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.

The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

The key is to be happy for no reason. Just be love. Just be it. Just be happy no matter what. Just share your love and know that like it's all ok.

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here.

The level of trust is extraordinarily low and the level of suspicion extraordinarily high, and with good reason and on both sides. The press has hunkered down for very good reason, because it's being treated like a mushroom.

The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

The lighting changes were definitely the biggest thing and the biggest reason that people don't shoot stop motion outdoors.

The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.