The Reason Quotes

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

The reason statins are so helpful is that even those who are trying their best to reach their target and still can't do it have something else to rely on.

There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

One possible reason that I don't believe in fate is that I wasn't fated to.

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

... reason accepts no commandments.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses. I decided I wasn't going to open an account. Put it the other way round - there was no reason that I should.

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know.

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.

It's everybody's duty to give the world a reason to dance.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there

I just wore a cage my whole career coming up, and didn't feel a reason not to have some type of protection.

The only reason that we humans and all creatures have made it thus far is because of the lessons learned consciously and unconsciously through the challenges we have been through.

The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.

A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.

Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

Its not weird being recognised, but its weird having to stop what youre doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.

I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.

I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.

One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like.

Even if you are angry and you have reason to be angry, that doesn't give you license to be cruel. We have to take responsibility for ourselves and the way we act.

Example has far more followers than reason.

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.