Quotes About Reason

When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.

People ask us a lot about the notion of spinning AWS off. We have no plans to do so. I will never say never, but there's no compelling reason. Amazon has been so generous and gracious in aggressively funding AWS that there's no reason to do it.

The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.

Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.