The Reason Quotes

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.

If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.

I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.

What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.

When I first met with Kurt [Sutter], it was one of those moments where you feel everything is happening for a reason.

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future.

Reason is the Soul of the Law.

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.

Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.

When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.

All the magazines contradict each other because it is so diverse. Know what you like, know what looks good on you and keep doing it, no reason to chase trends.

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated.

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.

You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries.

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.