Quotes with reason

Quotes 461 till 480 of 659.

  • Alice Miller The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • M. Rutherford The reason why people so of ten disagree in discussion is that they sar what they do not think.
    M. Rutherford
    English writer (ps. van William Hale White) (1831 - 1913)
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  • Walter Bagehot The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Jonathan Swift The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Samuel Smiles The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Burton Richter The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Eustace Budgell The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
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  • Robert Frost The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bertrand Russell The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Abraham Pais The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Alexander Pope The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Marya Mannes The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
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  • Tuckerman The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.
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  • Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Blaise Pascal The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bernard Devoto The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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