Quotes About Reason

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

I'm a believer in karma, and I'm also a believer that things happen for a reason.

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

Hollywood is such a fickle place, and you really have to go day to day and with the flow. Things happen so quickly, for the good or the bad. But you also have to know that everything happens for a reason.

Sometimes I sit down and I think 'Do I regret this? Do I regret that?' And I feel like everything makes this snowball effect, you know? If you regret something, it's good because it just means that it's something that's affected you enough for you to stop and think... There's a reason that everything happens.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.

the Stalinist credo: "a respect for obedience, hierarchy and institutionalized authority; a belief in reason, optimism and progress; recognition of a possible transformation of nature, society, and human beings; and an acceptance of the necessity of violence.

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

I am all in favour of science and reason if they are scientific and reasonable. But I am against granting scientists and the materialist worldview an exemption from critical thinking and sceptical investigation. We need an enlightenment of the Enlightenment.17