The Reason Quotes

The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason.

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me.

I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one.

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific theories presupposes the existence of natural kinds.

We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.

As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I'm comfortable in this church.

My music is very emotional. The reason why I want to play music is very emotional. I want to call out my emotions and package them into music.

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

The reason the United States is not aging rapidly in terms of its demographics is because we accept people as newcomers to this society in numbers that far surpass any of our major peers or rivals.

We have every reason in time and eternity to rejoice and give thanks for the quality of our lives and the blessings we have been given.

Recording is best used as a pretty good reason to hang with the family of friends globally scattered.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

We're big Hillary [Clinton] supporters. For a lot of reasons.

Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced.

I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.

I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.

I've never understood why people get mad at others for not being interested in them romantically - especially when there are so many reasons to be mad at people that are within their control.

Sometimes things that are comfortable are comfortable because it's what you're good at. When you start doing the things you're not as comfortable with, there needs to be a reason for it.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

I'm a fatalist. I believe things happen for a reason, that you attract people and situations that are meant to fulfil your path.

I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.

Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.

You are never angry for the reason you think you are. There's an older hurt under that.

For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear.

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.

The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting.