Quotes About Reason

Todo impulso del sentimiento debe estar dirigido por la razón, y a mi juicio, el esfuerzo debe ser proporcional a lo que se pretende - Mary

every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason.

These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything. But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.

Para su corazón era un asunto delicioso, para su imaginación una visión ridícula, mas para su razón, para su juicio, un verdadero embrollo.

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned.

I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to him, without any reason. It is such a spur to one's genius, such an opening for wit, to have a dislike of that kind. One may be continually abusive without saying anything just.

with the result of which he trusted he had every reason to be satisfied, since the refusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character.

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.

todo impulso del sentimiento ha de ser dirigido por la razón y en mi opinión , el esfuerzo debe de ser proporcional a lo que se pretende.

but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Las proporciones corporales y el pesar no deben guardar necesariamente relación. El cuerpo macizo tiene tanto derecho a estar profundamente afligido como el más gracioso conjunto de miembros finos. Pero, justo o no, hay cosas irreconciliables que la razón tratará de justificar en vano

the reason that you exercise is actually more important than the exercises that you do perform. The reason can promote your good health or actually impede it. Thus

From it is woven all material of your world and mine. If you consider the wires again, then you could view them as solidified emotion, woven together, however with a strong cohesive and stiffening power of the intellect. With feeling alone, although it is the basis, you would have an inconsistent, very precarious framework. Reason is the form that disciplines and upholds these frameworks.

contemplate the difference between a reason and an excuse. A reason is its own reward, but an excuse leads to disappointment every time.

her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth

She was drifting outside the limit of all reason, where the next stop was light-years away through nothing but darkness.

The writer, like a murderer, needs a motive.

When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure.

Donald Trump has got unlimited number of insecurities. But the No. 1 one thing, I would say, is his insecurity with his intellect. There's a reason why he always refers to where he went to college and, you know, that, 'I'm a smart person.' You know, it may be narcissism. But I think it really reflects an insecurity.

Theology is unnecessary.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.

A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing.

During my sojourn in ironclad atheism, the primary arsenal leveled against Christianity had been its failure on empirical grounds. Surely, enlightened reason offered a more coherent cosmos. Surely, Occam's razor cut the faithful free from blind faith. There is no proof of God; therefore, it is unreasonable to believe in God.

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.