The Reason Quotes

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

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.

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Purely sensual love is never true and lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.

In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.

The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

The past shouldn't be forgotten. It should be used as a guide for future situations and not used as a reason to avoid making difficult decisions. There was always a choice.

Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks.

Learn lots. Don't judge. Laugh for no reason. Be nice. Seek happiness.

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

The reason why you date people is to get to know who you're gonna marry and spend the rest of your life with

I know I don't look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch me for some reason. It feels good and I'm humbled by it.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.