Quotes with reason

Quotes 421 till 440 of 659.

  • Raymond Chandler The more you reason the less you create.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Thomas Paine The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Allan Bloom The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Bono The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Bette Davis The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Leo Rosten The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Henry James The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Albert Einstein The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Erma Bombeck The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Boris Johnson The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Marlon Brando The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
    Marlon Brando
    American actor, film director, and activist (1924 - 2004)
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  • Clark Gable The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
    Clark Gable
    American actor (1901 - 1960)
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  • Cyril Connolly The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Walter Lippmann The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Billy Collins The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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