Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

Normal is normal – and has been called normal for a reason.

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.

Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason?

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

Now I know a lot about NATO - NATO is obsolete, and the reason it's obsolete is because of the fact they don't focus on terrorism.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.

Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

One can always reason with reason.

Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

One of the main reasons that I love doing what I do is because it's unpredictable and I don't know what's coming next. When you're creating work, it's up to you whether it's an exciting experience or not.

One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for a variety of reasons, but the short version is that there was a need to be stricter about the standards of proof, because certain familiar modes of reasoning had started to lead people astray, or at least threatened to do so.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.

One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics.

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.

One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.

One of the reasons I started acting was to re-make The Karate Kid, but Jaden Smith beat me to it.

One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it would be such a shame not to redeem it that it's all fun.