Reason Quotes - Page 28

Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.

He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

I think everything happens for a reason, so there is no such thing as fail.

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

The reason why clutter clearing is effective is that while you are putting your external world in order there are corresponding changes going on internally too.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the former are more conducive to production.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.