Reason Quotes
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And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
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Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.
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You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
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Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.
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I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
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Part of the reason why I love to operate is because I find that so much of what we do is instinctual. It's dancing with the actors and responding to their body language, and you feel what the right place for the camera is at any given moment.
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There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It's easier to be alone. Because what if you learn that you need love and then you don't have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if if you shape your life around it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is death ends. This, it could go on forever.
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Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
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The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.
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It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way, for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult.
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It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.
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Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they started selling, people said my works were very detailed. They may have represented something Japanese to them.
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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
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Reason speaks and feeling bites.
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God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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Adrenaline dulls reason; panic kills it.
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I think oil prices are down for two reasons. One is, there is a lot of supply. There is a lot of supply because the U.S. now produces a lot of oil and there is a lot of supply because the Saudis seem to want to produce a lot of oil, maybe to punish the Iranians and the Russians.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.
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I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
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Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
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Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.
