Reason Quotes

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

I'm open to starting restaurants anywhere as long as the produce that's readily available is high quality. For example, I'm never doing a restaurant in Shanghai because I saw the produce available there, and it's just not good. I won't do a restaurant in Moscow for the same reason.

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.

When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn?

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.