The Reason Quotes

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason

It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

Why don't we have the chemistry that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had in Titanic? I'll tell you one reason: Because we're not in a movie!

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

We speak loud. And we speak with our hands, but we're not aggressive like warwise. A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

I am more on a global jihad to preserve our freedom. I believe that even though I have nothing against the people or Muslims or anybody for that reason.