The Reason Quotes

Wizard's Sixth Rule The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

God gave us creation to enjoy it. I believe this is the reason we fight against injustice so that all of creation can experience the beauty of God's goodness and grace.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

God, despite my circumstances, I will find reasons to praise You.

Art does not tolerate reason.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

If there's one thing worse than being really angry for no reason, it's suddenly remembering the reason.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

We are a very big mining country and historically have been exporters of raw minerals. There is no particular reason why we should not be processing those further.

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

For some reason cowboy sounds better than cowman.

Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax plan doesn't add up.

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.

A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.