The Reason Quotes

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.

I like reality. It tastes of bread.

The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale an' th' rest'll be rubber (plastic!)

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

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Reason is God's gift but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate and she is fate.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.

Come now and let us reason together.

Oh! Did you hear that Haley Spencer asked him to homecoming?” she exclaimed. “Of course I didn’t. You’re my source of gossip, remember?

I've always had that attitude that things happen for a reason.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

For some reason, every time I get a little bit under the weather, I've got zero patience.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

It's an amazing experience to work with Hrithik. He is one of the finest actors, and there is a reason for it. He is extremely hardworking and fully dedicated.

If 'The Hobbit' happens - and there's reason to believe that it will - then I think I'm in with a chance! Gollum is very much part of 'The Hobbit, ' after all.

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue.

Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.

The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.

Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal... to suit its interests and international legal obligations.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.