Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Faults Quotes, Reason Quotes

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

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If not reason, then the devil.

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

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I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

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Reason is intuition's servant.

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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

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Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.

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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

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Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

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If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps.

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Good reasons must of force give place to better.

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

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What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

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For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

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Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

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