Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.

We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

We do not have a South African as a member of the African Commission. The President of the Commission comes from Mali, the Deputy comes from Rwanda and then we have got all these other members, ordinary commissioners. There is no South African there. And the reason, again, for that is not because we didn't have South Africans who are competent.

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet.

We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.

We find it difficult to comprehend, and we deeply regret the decision as it is discriminatory in the sense that it targeted certain countries without a clear reason.

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

We haven't developed what some have called the precautionary principle which will say look, if there's a reason, if a product is safe, that's fine, but it's really the responsibility of an industry to tell us it's safe and to make sure it's safe. It's not our responsibility to wait until the damage is done.

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.

We have the most expensive compliance system in the world. The IRS brags that they spend 35 cents for every $100 they collect. They're very efficient collectors. And the reason is they stick the real cost on you and me.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

Well, like I said, there's no reason everyone can't have a piece of the pie, even if there's a gordo there eating most of it.

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

Well, no one treats me like a full-fledged royal, said Lissa, turning back to the dresses. No reason to act like one now. Show me your straps and short-sleeves.

Well, just another thing that Michael Cole brings to Monday Night Raw, he invited Laycool here, for whatever reason.

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

We need to talk to voters in large enough numbers and we need to have conversations that are probing and sustained enough that we understand where they're coming from because nothing is nonsensical. You know, in a democracy, in an election, in an electorate there's a reason why things are happening and it's incumbent upon us to delve deep enough to get at those reasons.

We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.