The Reason Quotes

Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp itsseat, and rule in its stead.

Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.

Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.

You're the reason our kids are ugly.

The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.

I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all comedy. Words. Thoughts. All thoughts are safe and worth exploring.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.

Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.

I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.

I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.

It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.

One of the reasons I don't do social media is that I like the feeling that if somebody asks me for a picture on the street, I don't have to say yes.

I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view - which is what, along with my reason, entitles me to refute it. You can't rationally reject something until you know all about it.

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.

I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.

There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve," Neeve said. "Either you're his true love . . . or you killed him.

Are you alone?" So that's what this call was about. For some reason, the question made my throat tighten. "No," I said, "Elvis is here. Would you like to talk to him?

Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.