Reason Quotes

• Beware of the possible reason some people are honestly down and out - it is because they tried to copy the many who are superficially doing well.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Reason
  • Copy

• There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Achievement
  • Limit
  • Realise

• The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Women
  • Money
  • Difficult

• I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there. It’s like measles - you can’t show other people exactly where the passion comes from. It’s curiosity in the purest sense. An inexplicable inspiration.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Experience
  • Desire
  • Passion

• This is the reason why there are currently about 6,000 startups in Israel. And the nature of the Israeli entrepreneur—who is not afraid and is resourceful, motivated and fast moving—all give us an advantage.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Moving

• There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Universities
  • Cautious

• I can't resist a pretty plant. When I see it, I want it, I buy it, take it home, and plant it where ever I can find a place. If I had a similar moral code when it comes to romance, I would be divorced several times over by now. That is the reason I grow a cottage garden. I can stick everything in with complete abandon and no discrimination whatsoever.

  

  Cassandra Danz
  • Home
  • Moral
  • Garden

• Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Fear
  • Limits
  • Atheism

• Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

  

  Albert Camus
  • War
  • Reason
  • Human Relationship

• In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Pretty
  • Career
  • Woman

• People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Hate
  • Groups

• Don’t just look at the problem that you face; look at the reason behind it

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Face

• There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Good
  • Reason
  • Obedient

• One of the reasons that Im running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States.

  

  Rick Perry
  • President
  • States
  • Uniforms

• I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • People
  • God
  • American

• You've got to be pretty confident that you're good. If I do a show and for whatever reason no one laughs, I'll be like, 'Wow, those people are weird'.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11 or 12 I started writing songs in English. And then after a while of writing these songs in English it came to me that there was no reason for me to sing in English because I lived in Argentina and also there was something important [about Spanish], so I started writing in Spanish.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Song

• At this stage, there is no reason why he would not be selected on the spring tour. Like every player in the squad, his performance during the winter season will be reviewed and evaluated but he is the current Australian captain and the right man to lead the team through this next period of time.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Time
  • Why
  • Team

• Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wisdom
  • Choice
  • Excellence

• Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Reason
  • Blessing

• You can't be afraid to speak the truth. If you're speaking truthfully - no matter if you're White, Black, Hispanic, Asian - if it's the truth, it's the truth! And if that's what you're telling, you have no reason to be fearful, or, worry about people trying to diffuse what you're doing. Because, if you're speaking the truth, they can't beat the truth.

  

  Warren Ballentine
  • People
  • Speak
  • Beats

• Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.

  

  Adele
  • Good
  • Decision
  • Brave

• If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Success

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