Quotes About Reason

There's no point in fighting guys when there's no structure, there's no rhyme or reason to who gets the title shot.

To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

First law of an argument: those who remain reasonable will make others seem unreasonable.

I don't care to know what the reason is that I am gay. But when it comes to being a Jew who only has one God, I know for sure that I was born that way.

Love without reason lasts the longest.

Francis Schaeffer's Escape from Reason.

Francis Schaeffer's Escape from Reason. To my great surprise and delight, that small book had answered questions I'd long before dismissed as unanswerable.

Vaughn folded his arms. 'The reason why you've lasted longer than most of your erstwhile colleagues is because you don't do drama. I don't like drama. I get enough drama at home. My wife could teach the RSC a few things about drama.' For someone who claimed that he didn't do drama, Vaughn was one of the biggest drama queens she knew.

Any artist should be grateful for a nave grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

The men who pile up the heaps of discussion and literature on the ethics of means and ends... are passionately committed to a mystical objectivity where passions are suspect. They assume a nonexistent situation where men dispassionately and with reason draw and devise means and ends as if studying a navigational chart on land.

Martin Luther offers a powerful reminder in our temptation to go at life on our own: The world is insane. It tries to get rid of its insanity by the use of wisdom and reason; and it looks for many ways and means, for all sorts of help and advice on how to escape this distress.

Third, emotivism cannot account for the place of reason in ethics. Emotivism sets up a false dichotomy, as the following demonstrates: (a) Either there are moral facts like there are scientific facts, or (b) values are nothing more than expressions of our subjective feelings. But there is another possibility; namely, moral truths are truths of reason, or a moral judgment is true if it is supported by better reasons than the alternatives.

No technique, no matter how good, can turn stupid coworkers into smart ones. And no method can magically make employees trust each other or their boss if they have good reason not to.

Making great things requires both intuition and logic, not a dominance of one over the other.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." — Buddha

A major reason it works at Automattic is belief in a counterintuitive philosophy: safeguards don't make you safe; they make you lazy.

Where are all the reasonable people?" and realized the answer was that many reasonable people don't contact support.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

I don't want to believe because I'm crazy. I want to believe because it's true.

In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.

there's no talking sense to sentiment