Best ability & reason Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.”

People Reason School Hate Ability My Family Very Good Math Mathematical Exam Dork Dorky

Author:Rebel Wilson

“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.”

Ifs May Ideas Reason Problem Sides Ability Moral Creativity Progress Conflict Consequence Tests Practicals Handle Consistency Betterment Adequacy

Author:Rudolph Rummel

“The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction. In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.”

“Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.”

Thinking Ideas Reason Bits Ability Clear Nice Beats Priorities Logical Clear Thinking Bright Ideas

Author:Carroll Smith

“In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.”

Thinking Men Country Matter Reason Form Freedom Ability Opinion Speech Concern Every Man Stations Free Country

Author:Edmund Burke

“Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in men’s opinions.”

Men Should Persons Reason Ability Opinion Study Particular Safe Strive Display Strife

Book:Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist

Source: Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist

“One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.”

Wells May Long Has Beens Reason Use Ability Periods Distance Chiefs Long Distance Horseshoes

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.”

Persons Reason Able Individual Church Ability Weakness Institutions Threat Rationality Inability Teachable Individual Strength

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“I wish and will continue to wish, that the German people should learn that by reason of practical examples afforded by their ability and work, they are not a second-rate or inferior people in comparison with others. On the contrary they are their equals according to all true standards of values and therefore entitled to equal rights in all respects.”

People Should Reason Values Wish Ability Rights Example Equal Standards Rate Contrary Practicals Comparison Inferiors Entitled Equal Rights Second Rate

Author:Adolf Hitler

“If someone says you are not capable or can't have something, keep pushing because you can. And it's not because you're special, but it's because everyone possesses the ability to be awesome. The reason people say, 'No, you can't,' 'God doesn't want you to,' or they make laws is because they know that you have that in you. And they are scared to lose their superior standing.”

People Ifs Knows Want Reason Law Loses Ability Special Capable Standing Scared Superiors Pushing

Author:Philip DeFranco

“People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.”

People Reason President Ability

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.”

“Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.”

Thinking Reason Language Ability Misunderstanding Crux

Author:Johann Georg Hamann

“Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.”

Ifs Way Giving Reason Use Natural Ability Birth Let Me Philosophical Characteristics Innate

Author:Jostein Gaarder

“I always try to keep in mind the I do all that training for a reason, which is to compete to the best of my ability.”

Trying Mind Reason Ability Training

Author:Alistair Brownlee

“The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.”

May Reason Reality Truth Running Lying Order Reading Ability Fiction Honesty Truth Is Anger Stranger Rational Thread Irrational Believable Stranger Than Fiction

Book:Clearing the ground

Source: Clearing the ground

“It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.”

Knows Mind Stills Reason Done Shows Certain Order Ability Consciousness Satisfied Curse

Book:Essays and Reviews

Source: Essays and Reviews

“All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children. For this reason, reproductive freedom has always been the most popular item in each of the successive feminist agendas--and the most heavily assaulted target of each backlash.”

Children Self Reason Form Ability Bears Determination Feminist Aspiration Agendas Target Self Determination Items Backlash

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.”

Two Reason Use Ability Skills Theory And Practice

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of "unperturbedness" or quietude.”

Way States Reason Next Ability Results Attitude Objects Judgment Appearance Suspense Skepticism Mental Attitude Owing Scepticism

Book:Sextus Empiricus

Source: Sextus Empiricus

“I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting; it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech.”

People Reason Home Government Individual Ability Support Arms Bears Speech Gun Supreme Hunting Ducks Freedom Of Speech Abusive Right To Bear Arms Burglars Supreme Power Duck Hunting

Author:Vince Vaughn

“For some reason I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.”

People Ifs Want Reason Asks Ability Embarrassed

Author:Naomie Harris

“On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.”

Want Feels Should Important Reason Use Hands Reality Given Enjoy Ability Focus Exercise Healthy Tension Activist Vocation

Author:Wolfgang Tillmans

“As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.”

Children Ideas Ends Hard Reason Shows Individual Freedom Ability Effort Responsibility My Family Raises Chaos Urges Rejects Show Me Your Freedom Vaccinations

Author:Lindsey Graham

“My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.”

Ifs Reason Bigs Ability Technology Taken Becoming Losing Function Dependent Incidents

Author:Bruce Boxleitner

“If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.”

People Ifs Thinking Way States Reason Use Running Ability Talking Planets Resources Encouragement Leaving Stealing Reason Why Talking Heads

Author:Alice Walker

“I've been blessed with some luck, great ability and athleticism. That's really what's made me a great player, but I think the reason I've been able to last this long is the little things like taking care of my body.”

Thinking Littles Long Made Reason Body Care Able Lasts Ability Player Blessed Luck Little Things Athleticism

Author:Champ Bailey

“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”

Reason Found Understanding Imagination Ability Genius Philosophical Aptitude Vivid Imagination

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.”

People Reason Motivational Natural Ability Practice Eyesight Natural Ability

Author:Ted Williams

“What the Republican National Committee did to Ron Paul was the height of rudeness and stupidity for this reason: Why would you alienate an individual who has the ability to attract a new generation of voters, who are already skeptical of your institution but are willing to at least listen through the vehicle of this individual and the words that he is saying? Why would you alienate them, get on the floor and not let them speak? Not have his name go up on the board and see the number of electoral votes that he receives? This is crazy!”

“I always wonder about people's history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing and you know there's some reason why they're not able to connect. It's not because they don't want to. They don't have the ability.”

People Knows Want Kind Littles Reason Able Bits Ability Wonder Little Bit Reason Why

Author:Annette Bening

“Sometimes I decide not to make something because I am proud and think I am better than that - and then I realise I have to pay the rent and I have to take something which is even worse than all the other stuff they offer you because you were being so proud not to take it! But you adjust and sometimes for one reason or another there is no strategy at the end but there is the ability to do the best that you can with what you have.”

Thinking Ends Sometimes Reason Stuff Ability Pay Proud Offers Strategy Realising Do The Best

Author:Salma Hayek

“There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.”

Believe Different Reason Past Ability Changed Majority Violent Minorities No Reason

Book:In our time

Source: In our time

“In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.”

Wells Important Reason Government Order Ability Deals Achieve Conditions Balance Tasks Favors Well Being Civilized Civilized Society Wartime

Author:William Rehnquist

“Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve it often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their families are often the reason they get propelled into gang membership.”

Way Different Reason Problem Girl Community Ability Boys Importance Gender Solve Backgrounds Coming Out Masculinity Gang Membership Marginalized

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

“Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It's something the rest of us strive for.”

Reason Past Ability Dog Divine Letting Go Forgiving Strive Each Day Live Each Day

Author:Jennifer Skiff

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