Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

I think that things happen for a reason.

I think that we're just too invested in that myth that we are not connected, and are all potential millionaires if only we put in the work. I think that's destructive and ignores history and is one of the reasons we as a state are consistently at the bottom of all the lists because we handicap ourselves.

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.

I think the involvement of the state is the reason why I don't want to have a formalized wedding, and what I've seen makes me very aware of issues that people will go through prior to, during, and at the end of a marriage.

I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black

I think the reason that the Trump economic agenda is beneficial is, he is doing the right things. He wants to see growth, he wants to see to lower taxes, he wants to see this cash pile sitting outside the US return to the US. All of these things I think will be good for the US economy, and as I've said, if the US economy grows, the global economy benefits hugely.

I think the reason the Golden Age of television is so golden is because a lot of folks are willing to let creators do their thing and live or die by their own muse. They certainly allow us to do that.

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

I think things happen between people for a reason.

I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it.

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.

It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.

It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

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.