Reason Quotes - Page 29

The only reason I was able to accomplish things is the great people willing to work with me. A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company - and how excited they are about creating it. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. Without them, I would have accomplished very little. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.

There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

Law is mind without reason.

The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.

I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

There are hundreds of good reasons for having a cat, but all you need is one.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

Most people are reasonable. That's why they only do reasonably well.