#reason

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#administration #check #civilization #control #could

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being. ↗

— David Packard

#assume #being #cause #company #deeper

I do watch what I eat, but not for weight reasons. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#i #i do #reasons #watch #weight

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#god #man #passions #reason

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#falsification #honesty #integrity #lies #oxford

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#falsification #honesty #integrity #lies #scholars

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#deathers #logic #politics #reason #tea-party

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#because #cats #creatures #like #lovable

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest. ↗

— Ann Radcliffe

#inconsistancy #love #suspicion #unreasonable #love

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#leave #life #love #malfunction #noble