The Reason Quotes

I don't ever want something that I didn't do because I was afraid of it or I didn't think I'd be good at it - within reason. Obviously I'm never going to be able to play the trumpet.

With the skills that I have and with my commitment to getting better I don't see any reason I can't win every single fight I'm in.

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If there's something wrong, pass a law and do something about it.

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

The demeaning of dignity is almost the only reason for a fight.

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.

Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

One can always reason with reason.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.

Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.

The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

Leverage is the reason some people become rich and others do not become rich.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini.

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

There are hundreds of good reasons for having a cat, but all you need is one.

If every decision would reflect our feelings as well as our reason, the world would be a better place to live.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.