#reason

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#enlightenment #error #fallibility #humanity #humility

I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#busy #happy #i #i am #keep

For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location. ↗

— Max von Laue

#both #brightness #exert #factor #factors

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#feel #hard #imperfect #looked #reasons

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#able #get #health #into #me

The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost. ↗

— Mara Liasson

#battleground #because #being #boost #changing

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America. ↗

— Laura Bush

#critical #i #i think #lot #media

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going. ↗

— Courtney Love

#driven #going #i #i am #know

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

#batting #because #brilliant #discovered #formula

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#issued #may #nature #only #our