The Reason Quotes

There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.

My wife (Maria) is the best reason to come home.

I think that every job that you can save is important. Every job that you can create is very important and it should not be the number one reason why we invest in infrastructure to create jobs.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.

There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.

I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

We must make democracy the popular creed...If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer... That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

Why's it gotta be Ôtani for me? I don't know because I have way too many reasons to choose from! He's the one for me, that's all. He just is.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.

Beginnings come at random but endings always have a reason

Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.

Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect harmonyof the body, senses, mind and intellect, reason, consciousness and self. When all these are integrated that is true yoga.

The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.

What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.

Hillary Clinton has been in politics for the same reason I am - because we can improve other people's lives by doing this work.

You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy.

The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.

The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.

I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.