Quotes with (reason)

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  • Sydney Smith It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Honoré de Balzac It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • David Hume It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Jordan It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Virginia Woolf It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Lord George Byron It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ayn Rand It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Caitlin Stasey It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
    Caitlin Stasey
    Australian actress (1990 - )
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  • Alain de Botton It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Caroline Dhavernas It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Caroline Rhea It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.
    Caroline Rhea
    Canadian–American actress (1964 - )
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  • Bjorn Borg It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Erich Fromm Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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