The Reason Quotes
Sometimes I make stuff, and even I don't like it. There's something about it that I don't really like, or annoys me. For whatever reason it needs to come out.
Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.
Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.
I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.
The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty ... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .
Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.
Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the imagination.
Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.
Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.
I had no reason to get all goofy, just because the man was too good-looking for his own good.
For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.
The ghost of a smile flickered across his lips. ‘You’re always the voice of reason. Just try listening to yourself once in a while.
Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these characters take on these missions.
I knew there was a reason I didnt turn you into a banana slug." Leonid'd eyes widened. "No banana slug! Please!" "It was a compliement, silly. Forbidden is good! Sadie likes forbidden!
Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.
There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.
Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.
When Daddy goes to work, there's a mouth to feed, a point to life and a reason to do things
Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.
People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.
But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day too.
I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing for me.
Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge.
... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.
If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action
If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.
The only reason you get drafted or even looked at by the NFL is because they believe you can play at the next level ... if they believe I can do that, you know I believe I can do it.
The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.