Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.

This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

This parting cannot be for long; for those who love as we do cannot be parted. We shall always be united in thought, and thought is a great magnet. I have often spoken to thee of reason, now i speak to thee of faith

This then is the age of reason.

This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness. I loved him for being an amazing catch yet still vulnerable enough to be insecure. But most of all, I loved him for loving me.

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.

Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market; governments, rather than producing and selling services, live parasitically off the market and off society.

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned and this regime is on its way to annihilation.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.

To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

To get a save in the World Series is the reason I can't stop smiling.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

To LOVE without condition, to SMILE without reason, and to SERVE without end... THIS is achievement