Reason Quotes
Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
Immanuel Kant
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If we disown history we are at its mercy. To have a reasonable knowledge of the past is to possess an anchor which is likely to prevent us from being swept towards false ideas about the present and future.
Anna Komnene
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
Felix Dennis
Everyone in China is saying this is unfair. We are Chinese. We know what’s right and wrong. We are very clever. We are reasonable. Our ears are not numb.
Wang Leehom
The untrapped mind is open enough to see many possibilities, humble enough to learn from anyone and anything, forbearing enough to forgive all, perceptive enough to see things as they really are, and reasonable enough to judge their true value.
Matsushita Kōnosuke
What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. … Islam is not a killer religion. … Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem.
Muhammad Ali
In art [the Chinese] aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable.
Bertrand Russell
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Had he come we would have been really happy. This decision is taken because of [India's] internal political reasons, but it will not affect the success of this programme, we don't think it is a problem.
Sangamitta
They are my responsibility, and one of the reasons that brings me here each year is to see how they are getting on.
Tayeb Salih
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One final reason for being confident is that because of the work of Ram Swarup, Sita Ram Goel, Koenraad Elst, David Frawley, and Rajiv Malhotra the corpus is now reaching a critical mass. So, that we can think that within few years we will have a library for India and a library of India.
Balakrishna Nanda
For some reason, we know not what, his childhood was sharply severed. It lodged in him whole and entire. He could not disperse it.
Virginia Woolf
I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.
Felix Dennis
Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
Thiruvalluvar
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France is very concerned by the humanitarian tragedy taking place in Gaza. And it’s for this reason that France voted in favour of this resolution. And it’s for that reason that we plead for a new, immediate and lasting humanitarian truce that should lead to a sustainable ceasefire.
Bassem Youssef
Each individual man and each individual country, according to the principles of natural reason, is free from bondage. Consequently, if there is some threat that might infringe upon a country’s freedom, then that country should not hesitate even to take up arms against all the countries of the world.
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Police Inspector: Money and women: the reasons for make most mistakes in life. Looks like you've mixed up both.
Vikas Swarup