The Reason Quotes
I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.
For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them.
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.
The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.
The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost.
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
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
If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
If you have a certain point of view and reasons that you think are valid, then whether it's pro or anti, you can only and should only express those views you honestly hold.
There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again.
The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.
There is no reason to hit a woman. And I was just like, really? I could give you, like, 17 right off the top of my head.
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.
Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon
Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.
The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.
Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.
I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason, but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.
Jesus first of all, loves His Father in heaven and would never compromise the message that sinners must be delivered or be damned. That is the reason Jesus came to earth-to save sinners.
The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.
I write, "Give me reason but don't give me choice, because I'll make the same mistake again." I think that's what most men want to be told.
Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.
None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, "Do not magnify the imperfections of others.
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.