The Reason Quotes

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in men’s opinions.

There is a much bigger picture we are all striving for. To sweat the small stuff just stresses you out for no reason.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

But if your boyfriend, out of nowhere and with no advance warning whatsoever, dumps you for no apparent reason, is it really about you? Or is it all him?

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I know that I am a part of something so tremendous, so great, that, if for this reason only, it is holy.

If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn't hold each other tight.

What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing.

You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.

I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.

So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.

Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

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