Reason Quotes
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
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People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.
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I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.
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I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.
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Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
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He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
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The opinion of the majority was in his view not what mattered; rather, it was the opinion of the wise, those guided by reason, that counted. When put on trial by a jury of 500 of his fellow citizens for purportedly denying the gods of the city and replacing them with new ones, and in general corrupting the youth – the real motive may have been his associations with certain anti-democratic political figures of the day – he defended himself, Plato tells us, by claiming that he was divinely called to lead others to the improvement of their souls. Naturally, this democratic assembly had him executed.
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The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.
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The reason we've been growing at 1.8 percent for the last eight, ten years, which is way below the historical average, is in large part because of our tax code. It is important to us to get the biggest, broadest tax reduction, tax cuts, tax reform that we can possibly get because it's the only way we get back to 3 percent growth. That's what's driving all of this, how do you get the American economy back on that historical growth rate of 3 percent and out of these doldrums of 1.8, 1.9 that we had of the previous Barack Obama administration?
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Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
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Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.
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How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.
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Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?
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Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.
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For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.
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As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it.
