Reason Quotes - Page 9

• Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

  Robert Frost

  Change, Life And Love, Advice

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• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Moving, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Literature, Return

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• La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Forts, Plus, Strongest

  'Fables' bk. 1 (1668) 'Le Loup et l'Agneau'

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• Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.95, Penguin

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• When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it.

  John Polkinghorne

  Nature, Everything Happens For A Reason, Law

  "Science Finds God". www.washingtonpost.com. July 20, 1998.

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• I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Success, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 06, 2015

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• Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

  Jay-Z

  Rapper, Gossip, Causes

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• When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Leadership, Opportunity, Men

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• Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Advice, Feels, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.23, Nayika Publishing

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• The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Leadership, Determination

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• Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  'Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics' (1785, translation by T. K. Abbott) sect. 2

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• When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Time, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

  Pythagoras

  Demise, Immortal, Mortals

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• Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

  Voltaire

  Faith, Believe

  1770 Questions sur l'Encyclopedie.

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• Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Inspiring, Wisdom

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.53, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Catholic, Seems

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1951). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Food, Humor

  Without Feathers "Selections from the Allen Notebooks" (1975)

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• If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

  Garth Brooks

  Would Be, Boxes, Neat

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• A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Thoughtful, Love Is

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

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• Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.66, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

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• Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Patriotic, Free Opinion

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• To reason about love is to lose reason.

  Stanislas de Boufflers

  Love Is, Loses

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