The Reason Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

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.

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.

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.

Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason... now I have a reason.

Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

But I give best when I give from that deeper place; when I give simply, freely and generously, and sometimes for no particular reason. I give best when I give from my heart.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.

The Voice of Reason is in us all...and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.

There is no reason to be alive if you can't do the deadlift!

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

Everything happens for a reason, everything is part of a puzzle that, even at the time, if we don't understand the bigger picture, everything has significant role in what's to come in the future.

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

Decisions are more apt to be accepted when you've listened to suggestions first. I wanted them to see the reason behind what I asked of them, not to do things just because I said so.

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations - seeking to understand the reasons why.

When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

Do not need to look for reasons to hate when there is reason to love.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive.

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.