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• A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Compassion, Heart, Reason

• I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with ‘M’ for some reason.

  Brian Selznick

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Reason, Definitely

• Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.

  Harriet Martineau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Book, Reading

• When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Inspirational, Politics, Religion, Truth

  Tags in Change/Growth, Faith, Reason

• Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

  William Warburton

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Reason

• That we have “good reasons to” does not necessarily mean that we have “good reason to.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason
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  The Heart Has Reasons That Reason Does Not Understand.

  Jacques Benigne Bossuet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Reason

• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

  Henry Ford

  Topics in Wisdom, Work

  Tags in Reason

• If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

  Edward Hopper

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Words, Reason
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  The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  T. S. Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Deed, Greatest, Reason, Temptation, Purpose

• I’m a strong believer in ‘everything is meant to be for a reason.’

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believer, Reason

• Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

  Alexander Pope

  Topics in Education, Knowledge

  Tags in People, Soon, Learn, Anything, Everything, Understand, Reason

• Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Reason, Need
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  We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

  Robin Sharma

  Topics in Future, Past

  Tags in Special, Reason

• Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Future, Inspirational

  Tags in Reason

• For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

  Bo Bennett

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Reason
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  Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Inspirational, Love

  Tags in Understanding, Reason

• I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Figure, Enjoy, Reason

• The only reason I’m friends with any of you is because I outgrew the von Trapps, one annoying Austrian at a time.

  Lisa Mantchev

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason

• I’m trying to make some sense out of the phrase “Everything happens for a reason,” and I think I’ve figured out what the reason is – to pissed me off.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Reason