The Reason Quotes

Reason is the servant of instinct.

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'

Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.

I think that things happen for a reason.

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because there are no such things as ideal conditions.

We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

Stephanie had no problem doing what she was told, just so long as she was given a good reason why she should.

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.

And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded.

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.

Things are finally starting to calm down and be the way they're supposed to be. I think things happen for a reason.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.

Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

I didn't watch one tape on Pacquiao. There is no reason to study him. He's not at this level.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.