Reason Quotes

And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Brand-new research suggests that the faster you take weight off, the longer you keep it off. Now that's a reason for dieters everywhere to rejoice.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.

I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

The whole reason Sabrina came about was because we wanted something good for families to watch on TV.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.