Quotes About Reason

Holding a majority in the decisions that impact people's lives, life, should mean that you hold a majority in wisdom, reason, soul.

The true thinker is on the side of justice, of reason, of life.

Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.

there is rarely any rhyme or reason in suicides. They can be a cry for help gone wrong, or a punishment to those you're leaving behind, or one fateful twenty-minute window when you lose your bearings and can't find the reasons to go on.

But the more I see of the damage simplistic thinking can do, the more I admire and cling to John Keats's notion of "negative capability" which he defined as the capacity to dwell in ambiguity or paradox without any "irritable reaching after fact and reason." To allow room for wonder, speculation, uncertainty.

how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist

Fear and logic belong together.

For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Everything has to be done for a reason, and everything has to be done to make sense in terms of running a proper business today, and it's not just about the food.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Our greatest enemy is the enemy within, for hidden there are dark and destructive emotions. But also hidden there is the light of reason that can lead us to the dawn.

No matter how hard you try to make a person who's miserable all the time happy it'll never work, until they get a handle on their life and try being happy without a reason. Life doesn't owe anyone happiness only you owe yourself happiness.