Reason Quotes

13387 Reason quotes by 6691 unique authors

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very… — Oscar Wilde
Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the… — Richard Rolle
I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness. — Terry Hands
In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first… — Rajneesh
On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in generously supporting Jewish… — Guy de Rothschild
If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for… — Maxine Waters
Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is… — Rajneesh
Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling… — Rajneesh
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and… — Thomas Browne
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his… — Leon Bourgeois
Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are.… — Neale Donald Walsch
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered,… — Edmund Burke
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an… — Albert Einstein
It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive. — Paulo Coelho
And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he… — Paulo Coelho
I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs. — Alexis de Tocqueville
[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore,… — Thomas Hutchinson
I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true.... If you do something for a religious… — Lisa Randall
In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests… — Noah Webster
I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has… — Thomas Jefferson
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all… — Alexander Hamilton
It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness… — Alexander Hamilton
I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all… — Ronald Reagan

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