Quotes About Reason

With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art.

What we must do is to sit down together as reasonable people and make our government do what is right, and stop doing what may be wrong-headed or wasteful.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

To acknowledge that the biggest wave in the world might be a shore break off a little Portuguese town no one has ever heard of flies in the face of what passes for reason in the surf world.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Living as we do with a veil over our eyes, we cannot remember what it was like to be with our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, in the premortal world; nor can we see with our physical eyes or with reason alone the hand of God in our lives.

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

The only reason anything was off-white at the Chateau was because it had once been just plain white.

If I thought about planning, I'd plan movies. If I thought about planning my life, I'd plan my life more rationally, not like New Yorkers who live their lives so irrationally, without reason. Maybe that's the connection between my movies and New York: the movies have the same kind of lack of overall design.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

PSG - I think they had a money problem and they couldn't buy players. This is the main reason I didn't go there.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason. I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.

Coincidence is logical.

I've collected comics for many, many years, but I've usually collected older ones for whatever reason.

Commerce is in no one's hand and that should not be the only reason to make a film ever.

You have to have the common sense.

I like common sense, to try and be the voice of reason at work.

We've lost common sense.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?