Quotes About Reason

Emotions cloud reason, and if you cannot see the situation clearly, you cannot prepare for and respond to it with any degree of control. Anger

The most important of these skills, and power's crucial foundation, is the ability to master your emotions. An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings. Emotions cloud reason, and if you cannot see the situation clearly, you cannot prepare for and respond to it with any degree of control.

The Rat hummed a tune, and the Mole recollected that animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.

The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.

Behind every trial and every sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard." - Al to Rachel

Ivy?" I called as I went belowdecks, fear winding between my soul and reason when she didn't answer. The silence ate away at my hope like bitter acid, drop by drop, breath by breath.

As with many religious fundamentalists, business for her was part of the religion; the two dogmas were mutually reinforcing, part of the same system. Reason

As with many religious fundamentalists, business for her was part of the religion; the two dogmas were mutually reinforcing, part of the same system. Reason had nothing to do with it.

And this is a very great gift; this, in the end, is what we think love gives, which is to say meaning. Because there is no very obvious meaning to be found in the universe, as far as we can tell. But a consciousness that cannot discern a meaning in existence is in trouble, very deep trouble, for at that point there is no organizing principle, no end to the halting problems, no reason to live, no love to be found. No: meaning is the hard problem.

I say I do not wish to be counted as an ignoramus and an ingrate toward Nature and toward God. For if they have given me my senses and my reason, why should I defer such great gifts to the errors of some mere man? Why should I believe blindly and stupidly what I wish to believe, and subject the freedom of my intellect to someone else who is just as liable to error as I am?

There was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable.

Mel exhaled. Why are you forcing me into the voice-of-reason role? You know that never works out for us.

Nixie, every party is an orgy waiting to happen. Nix opened her mouth, then closed it, dragging Neomi and Mari away. Well, you can't argue with reason, can you?

he limbered up, swung the guns up and down, side to side. The chair followed with them, giving him an exhilarating ride that was probably the real reason he liked the weapon so much.

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.