Reason Quotes

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies.

The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.

We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.