Reason Quotes

• Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Found
  • Stealing
  • Arguing

• Our reason for withdrawal is simple. We are party to too many regional trading organisations. The sum effect of this means that our membership is extremely costly to sustain and we must rationalise our participation in such ventures.

  

  Benjamin Mkapa
  • Reason
  • Participation
  • Organisations

• Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Funny

• The reason that he knew so much about everything, I found, was that wherever he went he got right in with the people.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • People
  • Reason
  • I Found

• Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.

  

  Albert Kesselring
  • Reason
  • Defeat
  • Airpower

• I can't give other people what I've not experienced to some extent myself. It sharpens your game and also, like any athlete, you're more fit because you have to be. You're getting ready because you have a reason to.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Giving
  • Athlete

• In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.

  

  Deborah Turbeville
  • People
  • Style
  • Aesthetic

• For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Earth
  • Doubt
  • Broken

• The reason so many believers are struggling is that we have voted in the past asking God to bless our plans rather than casting our votes based on seeking His agenda. We want God to sign off on our decisions rather than us following His.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Past
  • Decision
  • Struggle

• The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Giving
  • Reading
  • Advice

• The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.

  

  Barbara Graham
  • Women
  • Reason
  • Admit

• Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fear
  • Reason
  • Season

• Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.

  

  Bent Sæther
  • Reason
  • Project
  • Criteria

• In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Faith
  • Judge
  • Evidence

• The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Practice
  • Humans
  • Enslavement

• No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Chance
  • Ashamed

• Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason.

  

  William Bernard Ullathorne
  • World
  • Transformation
  • Marvelous

• ...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Living
  • Dead
  • Long Time

• Our reason is our law.

  

  John Milton
  • Law
  • Reason

• I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

  

  Erich Segal
  • Reason
  • Accepted
  • Rejected

• This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Reason
  • Theology
  • Seizes

• Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

  

  Benjamin Wiker
  • World
  • Accepting
  • Abstract

• It's sort of cheesy to introduce that to the drums - those dings and dongs and bell sounds. That's definitely one of the reasons people are like 'oh yeah, they sound like Tom Waits, with those trashcan drums.' But at the same time, it sounds so good! And it introduces this... I mean, it's not tuned, but somehow it adds this extra layer of melodic texture.

  

  Carey Mercer
  • People
  • Mean
  • Waiting

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