Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.

It isn't necessary to trust God when we have full understanding and knowledge of what He is doing on our behalf... Trust is needed in those times when, for whatever reason, we are not hearing from God as clearly as we would like.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

It is often said in the Bible that God spake unto Moses, but how do you know that God spake unto Moses? Because, you will say, the Bible says so. The Koran says, that God spake unto Mahomet, do you believe that too? No. Why not? Because, you will say, you do not believe it; and so because you do, and because you don't is all the reason you can give for believing or disbelieving except that you will say that Mahomet was an impostor. And how do you know Moses was not an impostor?

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian scholars have managed not to see it, and this, one must suspect, for dogmatic reasons.

It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.

It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. It was really me just mimicking. That's one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to do that anymore.

I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

It's clear to me that many weapons sales are very short-sighted. The U.S. and other arms-producing countries sell weapons for a variety of reasons, but most sales involve strategic interest or profit motivation, or both.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.