Quotes About Reason

The modern discovery of history and historical consciousness owed one of its greatest impulses neither to a new enthusiasm for the greatness of man, his doings and sufferings, nor to the belief that the meaning of human existence can be found in the story of mankind, but to the despair of human reason, which seemed adequate only when confronted with man-made objects.

Vernunft (reason) is traced back to its origin in the verb vernehmen (to perceive, to hear)

You stay in the surreal world of so-called higher learning. You are comfortable there. You have very little reason to leave it.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

To be very honest, my reason for getting away from 'Pepsi Battle of the Bands' was because I was on tour. I wanted to be on tour, and the amount I was asking for, they said that they couldn't pay it.

Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

You can monetize yourself if and only if you develop a reason to monetize your services and or talents. In other words, you must have a unique proven talent, track record that will make people want to pay for that service or product.

Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

If you're trading individual securities, you're almost certainly making a mistake. Because most professional managers can't outperform their benchmarks, and there's little reason to think that individuals can.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in men's opinions.

There's never any reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust. -Terence

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.