Quotes with reason

Quotes 261 till 280 of 659.

  • 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.
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  • 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)
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  • Bodhidharma Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • 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)
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  • William R. Alger Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • 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)
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  • 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 - )
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  • 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)
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  • 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 - )
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  • 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)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Henry Fielding Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Ariel Sharon Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Mario Puzo Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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