Reason Quotes - Page 65

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neither proved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

When reason rules, money is a blessing.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

I remind you that I belong with great ardor to everyone and for this reason I am suffering immensely for all.

Everybody has their reasons.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

This is the reason why it is crucial to distinguish anger from hatred. There is a kind of anger (nonsinful kind) which...is in God himself, while hate is not in God but is in Satan. If we do not clearly distinguish anger from hatred, then we do not clearly distinguish God from Satan!

There is almost always a major blip for whatever reason and we have learnt to expect it and not to panic.

So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.