Quotes About Reason

At what age did Warren Buffett come into philanthropy? At 76. He gave a very good reason. He said his wife was considerably younger than him. And all Americans believe they would live till 80, and they do live till 80. He told his wife that when he is gone, she should take care of whatever they need to do.

I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter to fight, or to go yourself. So often, we are lied to and manipulated by our governments for their own very cynical reasons.

Wars are not a choice we make for no reason.

I am wary of sequels. I understand them from the studio's point of view, but the audience doesn't want more, they want better, and I thought the second 'Ghostbusters' was not very effective, it did not really work, so there's no reason to believe a third would. I'm more interested in new things.

But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?" "I'm not human," he said. "I don't require a reason to live. Living is my default condition." I couldn't help it; I laughed, and teas weleld in my eyes. That answer was quintessentially Orma, distilled to his elemental Orma-ness.

Where's the logic in dying?

He's thinking about me because I'm a novelty, that's all." "I don't think that's the reason," Shaun said. I glared at him. "Trust me, Shaun, a lot is going on here that you don't know about." "Tara told me he kissed you." I frowned at Tara. "You told him?" "Well, yeah. I tell Shaun everything. He's my boyfriend." "I'm starting to hate that term. 'My boyfriend.

and then Giddle became cryptic, like, if you don't already know, I can't spell it out. That was when I first sensed, but then almost as quickly suppressed, something about Giddle, which was that there might be reason to doubt everything she said.

That a dream is not reason to evacuate.

how could she stay? "For a long time, I thought the fact that I can't have more children was punishment for my mistakes." "I hope you know better now." "I think some things just happen. Not for a reason, not as some punishment from a higher power, not as part of some master plan. They just are.

I recognize myself for part of this mad world, I suppose. You wouldn't have me take it seriously? I should lose my reason utterly if I did;

We should plead not guilty by reason of inanity…

Reason has moons, but moons not hers Lie mirrored on her sea, Confounding her astronomers, But, oh, delighting me!

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

If you don't abide by scientific principles, chaos will ensue.

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.

Predicting the future is actually the primary reason that we have a brain.

What the hell, it always rains in sad love stories. And in happy ones too. Must be a reason, though perhaps not necessarily metaphysical.

Reasons do not grow out of some putative biological substrate but are a forward-looking affirmation of, assertion of, expression of, myself.

No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?

I am tasked with being that voice of calm and reason and disseminating the facts as we understand and know them.