Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Anything you think you know about about God, that you can't find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

A pink sunset - one of the reasons I moved to the seaside in Margate.

A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of story on the human mind is such that anecdote is often more persuasive than numbers. That's why news stories often concretize the impact of a change in government policy by following the story of one person.

Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?

A rational process is a moral process.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.

A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.

Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.

Are you alone?" So that's what this call was about. For some reason, the question made my throat tighten. "No," I said, "Elvis is here. Would you like to talk to him?

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Art does not tolerate reason.

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.

As Christians, though there may be reasons to be troubled, there are greater reasons not to be.

As for being somewhere you're not supposed to be - maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no reason.

As a studio, you have to have a niche. You have to provide a service and there has to be a reason for your being around.

As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.

As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.

As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.