The Reason Quotes

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

Every why hath a wherefore.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

Give me one good reason why I should never make a change, baby if you hold me then all of this will go away.

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

The only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about what they don't want than what they do want.

Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

I always try to keep in mind the I do all that training for a reason, which is to compete to the best of my ability.

The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.