Quotes with reason

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  • Betty Williams Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Joseph Cook Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
    Joseph Cook
    6th prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914 (1860 - 1947)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Archibald Macleish Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Gordon Sumner Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.
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  • Brad Holland Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Dale Carnegie Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Buddha Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the goo
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Anais Nin Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Ahmed Chalabi Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.
    Ahmed Chalabi
    Iraqi politician (1944 - 2015)
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  • William James Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bill James Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Alberto Salazar Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Don DeLillo Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • David Hume Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Vauvenargues Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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