Reason Quotes
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I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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Lifetime is television for women. Yet for some reason, there's always a woman getting beaten on that channel. "In a Lifetime original, Meredith Baxter-Berney gets beaten with a rod. In a Lifetime original, Rod."
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.
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I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street.
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You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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No matter what the issue is, don't try to justify why you don't feel good. And don't try to justify why you should feel differently. Don't try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that's keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
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Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.
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At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
