The Reason Quotes

The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.

The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar

Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

God's reason for creating Adam was the desire to reproduce himself.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.

I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way

So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.

There are moments when you love babies, and you're like, "God, they are the reason why we exist." Then they start crying, and you're like "God! Jesus!"

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.