The Reason Quotes

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

If I were really, truly in love with someone who was truly in love with me, then I would get married, but that would be the only reason I'd get married.

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.

I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.

I realize that things happen for a reason

You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.

The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

Stick choice should be every drummers first decision. Sticks are the liaison between you and your creative expression on the drums. Getting there the smoothest way is the reason I'm using Vater.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it.

Custom does often reason overrule.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.