Reason Quotes

• Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.

  

  William of Occam
  • Reason
  • Should

• We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Reason
  • Needed
  • Gang

• For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Religion
  • Existence
  • Kindness

• There's really quite a beautiful marriage between Milady's ingenuity and D'Artagnan's immaturity. When they first meet, she's trying to frame him. She's using him for a certain reason. They haven't just met by coincidence. She's singled him out for a reason. She knows that she can almost make D'Artagnan do what she wants to, and that's when D'Artagnan's immaturity comes out.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Trying
  • She
  • Beautiful

• Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

  

  William Blake
  • Reason
  • Known
  • Ratio

• A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Reason
  • Sympathy
  • Crowd

• If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right erson, and for the best reason.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Best
  • Right

• Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Passion
  • Fire
  • Quench

• The reason why techno girls are so much more fit than R&B girls is because they have to dance twice as fast!”

  

  Eric Prydz Swedish House Mafia
  • Dance
  • Girls
  • Fast

• 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.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Moment
  • Right
  • Operate

• The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Reason

• I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Care

• I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.

  

  J. B. Bury
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Artistic

• Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Career
  • Wonder
  • Novelist

• No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Believe
  • Reason
  • Wants

• Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness.

  

  Geneva Overholser
  • Pleasure
  • Failing
  • Laziness

• There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Business
  • Reason
  • Cemetery

• I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Question
  • Curiosity
  • Possible

• You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Sleep
  • Tea
  • Cups

• I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Reality
  • Picture
  • Movies

• Reason speaks and feeling bites.

  

  Plutarch
  • Reason
  • Speaks
  • Bites

• I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.

  

  Albert Oehlen
  • Why
  • Control
  • Paint

• My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Death
  • Desire
  • Disease

• Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Men
  • Helping
  • Revelations

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