Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

{Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations.

Love alone is never a good enough reason to marry.

Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

Love has a reason There's a meaning to the world We're giving love.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.

Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

Luck is manufactured in the factory of GOD only. So no reason for believing only GOD and not LUCK.

Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.

Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I've had.

Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.

Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.