The Reason Quotes

I believe that meetings at the top level in a relatively informal atmosphere are always useful, and there is reason to hope that we will make progress in resolving the matters we will be considering.

As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

I like the type of culture that the Internet allows to happen. And, of course, for some bizarre reason, that is cats!

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that...All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is just a test. I just don't know what the test is yet.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

In every moment there is a reason to carry on.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.

Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.

Get into the relationship for the right reason because it's a great support system, because it's a great compliment to your life, because it's someone that actually fulfills you and makes you happy.

I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.

I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

Memories are meant to fade, Lenny. They're designed that way for a reason.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

You must be prepared and know the reason why you dance.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.