#reason

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#consciences #contrary #existed #external #intolerable

So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason. ↗

— Carrot Top

#everything #far #future #happen #happens

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#been #believed #carry #could #ego

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#commence #commences #ends #experience #investigate

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful. ↗

— George Wald

#casts #especially #everywhere #found #grateful

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#humans #lives #make #many #money

I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#find #guess #high #i #really

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

#get #hard #i #i write #love

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#fear #few #few women #had #i

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all. ↗

— Larry Elder

#angry #anybody #become #criminal #dad