Quotes About Reason

Thank Life For Happening, Thank Every Twist And Turn, There Is A Reason For Every Single Thing, There Is A Reason For Every Worry And Concern.

Have you got something against faith?""Have you got something against reason?

Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha is quoted as saying, "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

There are indeed solid ontological foundations for an understanding of signals of transformation. Both Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin take the notion of God to be a direct perception of God's existence, one unmediated by reason, by revelation, by society, or by psychological need.

History is furious debate informed by evidence and reason.

removed the "God-given" from this conception and made "reason" the sole criterion for truth.

One thing the Bible does not do: it does not denigrate the mind. The Bible is not anti-intellectual. Rather it gives the reason why all of us know what we know, why we can think with some degree of accuracy, and why we fail to think with complete accuracy.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Up till the Age of Reason, the collection of beliefs which modern occultists have used as a quarrying-ground can be shown to have had a certain consistency. this consistency is a mystical-philosophical-religious approach deriving from the religions displaced by Christianity. This approach remains the nucleus of occult Tradition.

don't let the pride take over reason

there's nothing more important than making a faith reasonable

The excitement is often grand, as is the reason least, in the beginning of the attack.

if ever a pope should command me to play on the flute, build towers, to mend or weave garments, and to stuff sausages, ought not my reason to judge that the pope was foolish in so commanding?

In its dream of the triumph of reason and science, the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century failed in its hope of sweeping away old legends and superstitions like these—partly because the next generation, the Romantics, would condemn the reign of reason and embrace the ancient, the wild and mysterious, the mingling of fear and awe they called the sublime. In

There is something very significant about Jane Austen's own reservation in her letter about the Evangelicals. She was "at least persuaded that they who are so from reason and feeling, must be happiest and safest". It leaves one wondering just what her own reason and feeling were telling her. We have no idea. In this passage, she sounds curiously like someone of our own times saying how much they would like to believe in God, if only they could.

Let reason flow like water around a stone, the stone remains.

Don't say things you'll regret later, Drew. Our whole world is topsy-turvy right now. But that's no reason to make a grand gesture. I'm here because I want to be. For now. Let's leave it at that.

We are all caught in the stream of a complicated legacy - a proof of the limits of human reason, a proof of our boundlessness. A declaration that were were down here on this crowded, lonely planet, a declaration that we mattered, we living clumps of ash, that each of us was once somebody, that we strove for what we could never have, that we could admit as much. That was us - funny and lousy and great all at once.

So it's reasonable to ask, "Is there actually any reason to use abstract classes?" The short answer is "No." Abstract classes in an API are suspicious and often indicate an unwillingness to invest more time in the proper API design. The longer answer is, "Well, there might be reasons to use abstract classes in APIs after all.

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is.

they would ride hell-for-leather part-way around the circle before seeking cover. They circled clockwise and counterclockwise. There was no rhyme or reason to it, an unpredictability that worked to their advantage.

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.