Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . . The fact that there is an end to one's life compels one to take an interest in things that will continue to live after one is dead.

Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

Atheism in not simply beyond reason, it is contrary to reason.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

At least Donald Trump is not politically correct; he's not so concerned about rehearsing and focus grouping every statement he makes and that's one of the reasons I supported him.

Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

At Silicon Valley, I'm extremely sympathetic to the revolutionary response. I not only agree with it emotionally. I agree with it practically. And the only thing I disagree with is, I don't think Donald Trump is that. Trump is blow it up for no good reason at all. You want to actually do revolution with a target, with an idea, with building a new system.

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

At the end of the day, everybody has to take the right decisions for the right reasons.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)

Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Barack Obama's said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we're looking at somebody who is such an inexperienced senator, who has said some very pleasant but not especially sterling or innovative things, the reason that he's considered such a big deal is simply because he's black.

Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!

Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

Because I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatever reason.

Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced.

Because I can’t live without Della. I don’t want to. She’s the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends. And then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. It wasn't the goodwill I felt that made someone a friend. What handy day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. How good to know my enemies (though their reasons are absurd!)

Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Because we bring so little is no reason to bring nothing.

Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason... now I have a reason.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.

Be happy for no reason, like a child.

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.