1,806 Quotes About Reason

There are always reasons not to start but those reasons only matter if you choose to believe them. If you move beyond the reasons to stay where you are, you can discover the reasons you should begin to move toward your dreams.

You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand that. We believe -- believed -- that happiness was a natural condition of reasoning beings.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

It’s easier, somehow, if there’s a reason for tragedy---lust or jealousy or hatred or revenge. We can find in these explanations an emotional tenor commensurate with the gravity of the act. There’s something we recognize as human, a motive toward which we can direct our rage but can also understand, at some primal level, as an extension of ourselves.

Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them?

Many of my colleagues operate from a mistaken notion that rational thought can come from only objective discourse, devoid of emotions. To me, speaking from the heart and with passion is not antagonistic to reason.

God always has a reason for what you are asked to endure.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.