Reason Quotes - Page 23

• The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Doubt, Triumph, Casts

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

  John S. Pistole

  Hurt, Technology, Air

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• There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Believe, Animal, Intellect

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• The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  People, Nerves, Fats

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• If I could say with words what my dances express, I wouldn’t have a reason to dance.

  Mary Wigman

  If I Could, Ifs

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• The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.

  John Dewey

  Appreciation, Real, Artist

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• Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
  harmonyof the body, senses, mind
  and intellect, reason, consciousness
  and self. When all these are integrated
  that is true yoga.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Self, Perfect

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• When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

  Ralph Marston

  Moving, Excuse, Staying

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• The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.

  Bill Mollison

  Simple, Reality, Government

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• The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

  John Henry Newman

  Heart, Mean, Men

  John Henry Newman, Gerard Tracey (1999). “The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Tract 90 and the Jerusalem Bishopric, January 1841-April 1842”, p.555, Oxford University Press

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• The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Regret, Theatre, Shows

  "Andrew Lloyd Webber: 'My greatest regret'". Interview with Charles Spencer, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 26, 2013.

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• In life, we have either reasons or results

  Peter McWilliams

  Results

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Hate, Moving, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

  Carol Burnett

  Faith, Religious, Pain

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• When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Order, Religion

  Thomas Paine (1945). “The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine”

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• Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian girls have no reason to hide their knees and thighs. However, the mini-skirt is disastrous for the wool-trade.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• Many healings of other physical troubles have occurred in my clients after they started to integrate breathing practices into their lives. There is a simple but encompassing reason that may explain this. The human body is designed to discharge 70% of its toxins through breathing. Only a small percentage of toxins are discharged through sweat, defecation and urination. If your breathing is not operating at peak efficiency, you are not ridding yourself of toxins properly.

  Gay Hendricks

  Healing, Simple, Practice

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• Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Strong, Drinking

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• How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Men, Looks

  Isaac Asimov (1952). “Triangle: The currents of space; Pebble in the sky; The stars, like dust”

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• I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have no trouble in choosing where to point a finger. We are all needy, all vulnerable, all terrified that perhaps that person has an excellent reason to withhold affection. We shape our purposes to make ourselves worthy and often do not see until much later how it was love-or perhaps the lack of it-that both picked us up and dropped us off at crossroads.

  Kevin Hearne

  Love, Purpose, Shapes

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• One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Money, Struggle, School

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.24, Robert Kiyosaki

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• To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well.

  Edward Hallowell

  Memories, Imagination, Worry

  Edward M. Hallowell (1997). “Worry: Controlling it and Using it Wisely”, Pantheon

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• One reason writers write is out of revenge.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Revenge, Writing

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• A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Men, Should

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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