The Reason Quotes

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.

On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

Reason is emotion for the sexless.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

Love has nothing to do with good reasons.

Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.

The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

You try and work hard and get better each week. I play the game with passion. I enjoy the game. It's a lot of fun when I'm out there. That's the way I play. For some reason, people like that.

It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.