Quotes with (reason)

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  • Iain Banks Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
    The State of the Art (1991) 75
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Reason should direct and appetite obey.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Allan Bloom Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Ahmet Necdet Sezner Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.
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  • Thomas Carlyle Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jonathan Swift Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • James A. Froude Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Stanislaw I. Leszczynski Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
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  • Allen Tate Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Bobby Vinton Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Billie Lourd She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Bryan Callen Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Nicholas Boileau Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Alain de Botton Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alexander Pope Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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