A perfect revenue law, if improperly administered or resisted by a hostile public, will soon become a practical monstrosity. But an imperfect law, if wisely administered with a reasonable public, will produce very satisfactory results. – Aubrey R. Marrs
All progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw
At the end of reasons comes persuasion. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you’re happy with a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken away from you. – Deepak Chopra
Believe nothing unless it agrees with your own reason. – Buddha
Cuskoy, a town in eastern Turkey, is called the bird village with good reason. Its inhabitants have perfected a language system of chirps, tweets, and twitters almost indistinguishable from authentic bird sounds. The people of Cuskoy developed this unique system because of a ravine and a river which bisect their village and an almost daily fog that prevents the use of hand signals. – Charles Berlitz
How have you come to be so thin? Why are you trembling? Why are you so pale, oh simple girl? And she answered the Lord of her life, all these things just happen for no reason, sighing as she said it and turning to let tears fall. – Classical Sanskrit
Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the inquiring constructive mind. – Albert Einstein
I am responsible for what I see, can elect to change all thoughts that hurt and could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over – it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see, can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts and am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself. – Hugh Prather
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. – Galileo Galilei
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know the reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside! – Rumi
Imagine what would happen if a modern psychologist told his patients to submit to their own soul, to obey the objective psychic contents which appear spontaneously in dreams? All reasonable people would say the psychologist should be put in a lunatic asylum. – Carl Jung
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. – Rainer Maria Rilke
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is of no use to convince others of our spiritual and intellectual equality by way of reason, since others’ attitude does not come by way of their brains. We must instead emancipate ourselves socially and satisfy our own social requirements. – Albert Einstein
It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there all speckled with stars and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim, he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened. I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon coulda laid them. Well, that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn’t say nothing against it because I’ve seen a frog lay most as many, so of course it could be done. We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them streak down. Jim allowed they’d got spoiled and was hove out of the nest. – Mark Twain (in Huckleberry Finn)
Just when I had you wriggling in the crushing grip of reason … – Bill Watterson
Many come close yet few dare, so boldly, to live without judgment, to give without expecting, and to love for no reason. – Mike Dooley
Not activity. Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behavior of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know. – G. Spencer Brown
One of the schools of Tilon has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than the present memory. Another school declares that the whole of time has already happened and that our life is a vague memory or dim reflection, doubtless false and fragmented, of an irrevocable process. – Jorge Luis Borges
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. – Tony Robbins
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. – Mother Theresa
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it. – Blaise Pascal
Religion is a significant hindrance to reason, inherently masking the truth and misguiding followers. – Karl Marx
Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Steve Jobs
Revenue laws are notoriously not expressions of an ordered system of reason and fairness. There has probably never been a revenue statute which, by design or oversight, has not favored some groups and laid the basis for a claim of unfairness to others similarly situated. – Felix Frankfurter
The argument I may be dreaming is senseless for this reason: if I am dreaming, this remark is being dreamed as well – and indeed it is also being dreamed that these words have any meaning. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes. – Buckminster Fuller
The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over. – Margaret Atwood
The reason we navigate by the stars is because they never change. – Unknown
There are 6,000,000 reasons for failure but not a single excuse. – Rudyard Kipling
There are a thousand excuses for every failure but never a good reason. Mark Twain
There are two types of people who live in darkness. Those who are desperate to emerge and those who are desperate to stay. When you finally realize that part of the reason you chose this lifetime was to shine your light for the first type, you’ll stop worrying about what the second type thinks of you. – Mike Dooley
To do mathematics is to be, at once, touched by fire and bound by reason. – Jordan Ellenbergward
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in. – Galileo Galilei
