Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Less and less is the question being asked as to whether developments are taking place in a democratic and free way. Europe is in a phase in which this output is no longer sufficiently visible or tangible. Youth unemployment is still far too high, we still haven't solved our currency problem and living conditions in Europe are drifting apart. That is one reason why critics say that our Europe is based on yesteryear's model.

Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

Leverage is the reason some people become rich and others do not become rich.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

Life isn't always about logic and reasons—sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump. Particularly when it comes to relationships.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason.

Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile.

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

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

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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

Love alone is never a good enough reason to marry.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

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 must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by 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 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 rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.