The Reason Quotes

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

Don't worry about those who talk behind your back, they're behind you for a reason.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!

Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.

It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.

I think that Congress's ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

There’s no reason to hold yourself back and say you can’t do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

You will train always for a hundred terrific reasons. Quit and it will be for no good reason at all.

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

I am a woman. I was devastated, and I felt that excluding me for the reason that they gave was unjust. I have never asked for any special consideration. I only wanted to compete.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

The first rule of trading - there are probably many first rules - is don't get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don't understand.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.