Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

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.

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.

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

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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

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

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 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}

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

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.

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

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

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

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.

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.