The Reason Quotes

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

There is but halting for the wearied foot; The better way is hidden. Faith hath failed; One stronger far than reason mastered her. It is not reason makes faith hard, but life.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

The reason the American people don't trust Hillary Clinton is they're looking at the pay to play politics she operated with the Clinton foundation through the private server.

In fact, the number one reason for obesity in North America is simple: over consumption. And we over consume because we're hungry.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

There's really no reason to rehash something that you've already seen.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

I think the reason why I'm the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.

I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, ‘Oh! I can be somebody else. I can exist as someone else.’

An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand.

The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.

But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.

If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.

Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.

There needs to be a reason to go, so you go deeper into whatever place you're visiting to find those unforgettable experiences.

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.

If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg.