The Reason Quotes

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person.

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition

I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

If you can't win by reason, go for volume.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.