Quotes with non-reason

Quotes 301 till 320 of 744.

  • Eric Hoffer Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • Clarendon Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.
    - +
     0
  • Charles Caleb Colton Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Brad Holland Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bodhidharma Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
    - +
     0
  • Bobby Moynihan Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
    - +
     0
  • Sir Thomas Browne Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
    - +
     0
  • William R. Alger Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
    - +
     0
  • Mahatma Gandhi Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
    - +
     0
  • Epicurus Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
    - +
     0
  • Ayn Rand Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
    - +
     0
  • Basil Hume Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
    - +
     0
  • Sir John Denham More in prosperity is reason tost than ships in storms, their helms and anchors lost.
    Sir John Denham
    Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
    - +
     0
  • St. Thomas Aquinas Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
    - +
     0
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Alcee Hastings Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
    - +
     0
  • William Penn Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
    - +
     0
  • Bow Wow Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bob Ainsworth My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • George Bernard Shaw My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
    - +
     0
All non-reason famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 16)