Reason Quotes - page 10

Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs - and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information. (Henry Mintzberg)
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Eloquence may set fire to reason. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Do you have to have a reason for loving? View quote
Brigitte Bardot
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. View quote
Jane Austen
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong. View quote
Jane Austen
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. View quote
David Hume
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. View quote
David Hume
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. View quote
John Calvin
The reason people lose their healing, is because they begin questioning if God really did it. View quote
Benny Hinn
That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day. (Lewis Carroll)
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death. View quote
Jonathan Swift
But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err. View quote
Kurt Gödel
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. View quote
William Blake
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. View quote
William Blake
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it. View quote
William Blake
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. View quote
William Blake
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. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people. View quote
Sarah Palin
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. (Edmund Spenser)
Movies are so rarely great art, that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them. View quote
Pauline Kael
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. View quote
Denis Diderot
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end? View quote
T. H. White