The Reason Quotes
You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small
Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.
Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.
The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information.
As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire
The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
The media, the corporations, the politicians…have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it’s come to the point where they don’t need to give any reason at all.
The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.
There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase
I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.
This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
The things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don’t are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It’s our burden.
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave to them, or you're taking matters into your hands.
I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.
Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.
I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.
I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.
Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you." "I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin. "And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.
As soon as my mother saw my father, she said, "Oh! I think I'm gonna marry that man." That's the reason I've been married four times, because I think it's that easy ... it really is not.
He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.
But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
Looking forward with an eternal perspective gives one hope, a reason to look up and feel gratitude for even the smallest bit of light.