Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

There are always reasons not to start but those reasons only matter if you choose to believe them. If you move beyond the reasons to stay where you are, you can discover the reasons you should begin to move toward your dreams.

There are antecedent passion and consequent passion, that is, passion which precedes the use of reason or faith, and so hinders it; and passion which follows the exercise of reason or faith, and is of service to them. A man is in a state of anger at the moment when he ought to make a decision on an action; he decides badly, for anger blinds him. But when the decision is taken, and the man is wholly engaged in the performance, it may happen that a generous anger, kept within its proper limits, is a strength. What would we do without anger, without passion generally, on the battlefields either of war or of life?

There are only two kinds of thinking in this realm, Those with eternal angels of reason and logic, And those with the demon of ignorance.

There are other ways of knowing than just through reason.

There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason!

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!

The reason for the past is only revealed in the future.

The reason for our limitation is only inside us.

The reason for the peculiar name could be found in the whimsical sense of humor of the early colonists who arrived on Deanna several decades in the past and found very little at all there to laugh at. Obsidian Crows might seem funny at first, unless you just happened to ride over one with your Jeepo five miles out of town and didn’t have a spare tire. Although there was a reasonable expectation of hitting one of these diminutive brutes on the roads, this did not happen nearly as often as you might think.

The reason as to why a human cannot give birth to himself is because he needs someone to help him. We are altricial, or helpless at birth, because we have to depend on others so that later in life when we are capable, we help those in need. And this is very much part of the circle of life.

The reason for the absence of success in your life is not due to the lack of money, but to not having enough knowledge of the principles of success

The reason gold-diggers trivialize relationships is because they do not know love,they only know money.

The reason there’s no oneness and no harmony in the church is because the believers don’t habitually walk in the light and they don’t constantly allow God’s light (knowledge) to shine in them.

The reason why one man is great and another is not is simply because one man discovered the power of time while the other did not.

The reason that everyone has their own problem is everyone sees something in different side.

The reason why salt and sugar are known to be sweet is that they season other things. Care to share and dare to do it every day!

The reason which cause to hate someone will never be a valid reason, so think twice and thrice on that reason before you start hating anyone.

The reason we have choices in life, is so we do not blame anyone for the consequences of our decisions.

The reason why most of your goals are probably not achieved is because you do not break down your goals into smaller units of work.

There is a delicate ridge one must ride between fear and reason on a motorcycle—lean too far in either direction and there will be consequences.

There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value. All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; all that which destroys it is the evil.

There is a purpose for your presence here on Earth. There is a reason for you to be here. You are here to add something to the world that has never been here before. Your existence has never blessed this world before and it will never bless this world again. Find your reason to be here and live that reason. Create what you were meant to create. Dream what you were meant to dream. Live as you were meant to live. Your existence has a reason and your sole purpose in life is to find that reason.

There is a reason for every blessing that God gives a man.

There is a reason why they call it a pea brain when we get angry.

There is a reason why we met. We don't meet anyone by chance!

There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.

There is a part of us in everyone else.

There is a rationale for every action.

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

There is hope for you when your opinions are in opposition to those of the majority. Your brain mighty be working as it was meant to.

There is little difference between an insane person and a person in love.

There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would like to give a few thoughts on what seemed to be the overwhelming question: “WHY?” And here is the best answer I can give: Because. Because sometimes, life is damned unfair. Because sometimes, we lose people we love and it hurts deeply. Because sometimes, as the writer, you have to put your characters in harm’s way and be willing to go there if it is the right thing for your book, even if it grieves you to do it. Because sometimes there aren’t really answers to our questions except for what we discover, the meaning we assign them over time. Because acceptance is yet another of life’s “here’s a side of hurt” lessons and it is never truly acceptance unless it has cost us something to arrive there. Why, you ask? Because, I answer. Inadequate yet true.

There is no logical necessity for the existence of a unique direction of total time; whether there is only one time direction, or whether time directions alternate, depends on the shape of the entropy curve plotted by the universe.

There is no more insidious error than mistaking the effect for the cause: I call it the real corruption of reason. Yet this error is one of the most unchanging habits of mankind: we even worship it under the name of "religion" or "morality." Every single principle from religion or morality contains it;

There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve.

...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significant role played by mind, brain, or body. Because our conceptual systems grow out of our bodies, meaning is grounded in and through our bodies. Because a vast range of our concepts are metaphorical, meaning is not entirely literal and the classical correspondence theory of truth is false.

There is no reason to celebrate if God does not provide the victory

There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, that the multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful. The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature: and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history... [T]he detail of the formation of the American governments... may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had any interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of heaven... it will for ever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses... Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favour of the rights of mankind. [A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America, 1787]

There is only one power which can from within undermine egoism at the root, and really does undermine it, namely love, and chiefly sexual love. The falsehood and evil of egoism consists in the exclusive acknowledgement of absolute significance for oneself and in the denial of it for others. Reason shows us that this is unfounded and unjust, but simply by the facts love directly abrogates such an unjust relation, compelling us not by abstract consciousness, but by an internal emotion and the will of life to recognize for ourselves the absolute significance of another. Recognizing in love the truth of another, not abstractly, but essentially, transferring in deed the centre of our life beyond the limits of our empirical personality, we by so doing reveal and realize our own real truth, our own absolute significance, which consists just in our capacity to transcend the borders of our factual phenomenal being, in our capacity to live not only in ourselves, but also in another.

The religion/ politics dichotomy is a false one. It isn't that politics has no role; it's that politics is simply inseparable from the Abrahamic religions. Religion is politics. That was the case during the Barbary confrontation in 1786, and it's the case with the Israel-Palestine conflict now. Throughout history, religion has simply been an excuse looking for a conflict.

The relationship between truth and reason: "Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors. [This quote illustrates the reformed spelling advocated by Webster.]

There’s a good reason for everything, ain’t there?