Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

Hindsight is obviously a very great thing, but I'm always convinced that the reason that I didn't take as many politics or history classes is because I just didn't see any women. I didn't think when I was 13, 14 that that had anything to do with me. I just didn't see women in my textbooks.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.

Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason.

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

Humor is the only reason to live.

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

I agree with Bill Clinton that US forces should not be sent to Haiti, but not for his reasons.

I actually hate receiving gifts, it makes me very uncomfortable for some reason.

I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason.

I always try to keep in mind the I do all that training for a reason, which is to compete to the best of my ability.

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.

I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

I am a woman. I was devastated, and I felt that excluding me for the reason that they gave was unjust. I have never asked for any special consideration. I only wanted to compete.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

I am happy, and I have many reasons to be extra-happy nowadays. Life is calm, and the career is good and taking its course. And things are moving, things are moving ahead.

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

I am more on a global jihad to preserve our freedom. I believe that even though I have nothing against the people or Muslims or anybody for that reason.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

I believe God lets us go through all of what we go through for a reason and it's all part of a continued learning curve and journey of revelation and knowledge.

I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.