Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

In Poland, nobody is arrested or persecuted for political reasons.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.

In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it

Invisible harmony is better than visible.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.

I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.

I realize that things happen for a reason

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

I saved $725 million on the 90 planes. Just 90. Now there are 3,000 planes that are going to be ordered. On 90 planes I saved $725 million. It's actually a little bit more than that, but it's $725 million. Gen. Mattis, who had to sign the deal when it came to his office, said, "I've never seen anything like this in my life." We went from a company that wanted more money for the planes to a company that cut. And the reason they cut - same planes, same everything - was because of me. I mean, because that's what I do.

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Is a reason nesessary? I don't know why you would kill someone. But as for saving someone... A logical mind isn't needed, right? -Kudou Shinichi

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this war. You have to be sort of asleep at the switch not to be critical of it. And the parallel between one quagmire we went through in Vietnam and the one we're in now is clear for everybody to see.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.