Reason Quotes - page 11

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live. (William Wordsworth)
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it. View quote
Will Rogers
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason. View quote
Octavio Paz
water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system. View quote
Vitruvius
The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations. View quote
Vitruvius
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. View quote
Milton Friedman
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. View quote
André Gide
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, 'Tis mans perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. (Martin Heidegger)
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living. View quote
Martha Graham
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. View quote
E. W. Howe
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason. View quote
Robertson Davies
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. View quote
Hannes Alfvén
You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to be happy. View quote
Louis Sachar
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see. View quote
John D. MacDonald
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. (Lord Byron)
I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way. View quote
Erich Fromm
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat. View quote
Albert Kesselring
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. View quote
Francis Quarles
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order - for "rational” is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression. View quote
Herbert Marcuse