Quotes About Reason

I'm the biggest draw. I do the biggest numbers in this division, and it's not even close. There's a reason all these guys want to fight me. They don't want to fight Tyron Woodley. Because I'm the biggest fight and the biggest draw in the division.

I'm very coachable, I listen. I have these ears and they're big for a reason.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Hollywood.' It feels like the wrong reason - I would prefer they entered the business for artistic reasons, because they need to do it.

My whole approach in calling a game is that you want to be fun and entertaining, but you also want to be the voice of reason too.

The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason.

Understanding is very different from knowing. Understanding is a psychological process of perceiving an object through reason. It is, in a sense, conceptualizing an object. But an object cannot be fully comprehended by conceptual understanding alone. Knowing is not thinking artificially or mobilizing rational logic. It is a state in which you come to obviously and plainly know, without trying to get it right.

The idea of a spiritually potent creation means that Jesus Christ is not an intrusion into an otherwise evolutionary universe but its reason and goal.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.

You reason like a well-fed man, while your comrade's philosophy comes from an empty stomach. With reason you won't vanquish one another. You would agree at once if either you were hungry or he were full. The animal is always first in you and only when it is appeased, Man becomes conscious and in his great pride, despises his real nature.

I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

If you have resolutely fixed your opinion, though it be upon too slight and insufficient grounds, yet you will stand determined to renounce the strongest reason brought for the contrary opinion, and grow obstinate against the force of the clearest argument. Positivo

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

Haces bien en estar celoso. Pero tú pretendes someter los celos a la razón. –Claro: así los hago más eficaces. –Tú razonas demasiado. ¿Por qué se razona con el amor? –Para amarte más. Cualquier cosa, si se hace razonando, aumenta su poder.

Fai bene a esser geloso. Ma tu pretendi di sottomettere la gelosia alla ragione. - Certo: così la rendo più efficace. - Tu ragioni troppo. Perché mai l'amore va ragionato? - Per amarti di più. Ogni cosa, a farla ragionando, aumenta il suo potere. - Vivi sugli alberi e hai la mentalità di un notaio con la gotta. - Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice.

choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.

Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. I'm counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give you a reason to be nasty, they don't give you a reason to be in this lane.