Reason Quotes - Page 104

Well, no one treats me like a full-fledged royal, said Lissa, turning back to the dresses. No reason to act like one now. Show me your straps and short-sleeves.

I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the imagination.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for a variety of reasons, but the short version is that there was a need to be stricter about the standards of proof, because certain familiar modes of reasoning had started to lead people astray, or at least threatened to do so.

Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

Faith is not the opposite of reason.

The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty ... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.

Will any man that hath not lost his senses, now stand caviling, and quarrelling, that so few should be saved, instead of making sure of his own salvation? The reason that there are so few is, because they will not be saved upon God's terms.

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

It's really difficult to get good information, and there's a reason for that. They're not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we always are dealing with uncertain information. Certainly what is happening there is qualitatively different from what happening in Abyei.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

I have people come onstage and ask me questions and I get to meet them. That's one of the reasons I like it. When you're performing, when you're doing your movies, they're not there with you.

There's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's absurd. It's absolutely absurd.